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...there was opposition from 1) Falange moderates, happy in their cushy government jobs; 2) the monarchists, who fear that a reawakening of Falangist activity may mean the end of Pretender Don Juan's chances of getting the throne; 3) the army, one of whose spokesmen said: "We prefer commemorating wars in which the beaten enemy was a foreign invader, not misled countrymen"; 4) the church, expressing itself through a Catholic Action leader: "Civil war is sometimes a necessity, but always hideous. The wound must be healed and forgotten, if we don't wish to perpetuate the source...
When the Communists took over Czechoslovakia in 1948, Dr. Joseph Hromadka, dean of the Jan Comenius Theological Faculty in Prague, was one of the few Christian leaders to cooperate with them. Since then, he has become one of Europe's rare spokesmen for the view that Christianity can get along under Communist regimes...
...supply & demand would bring prices down? Livestock prices had already taken some pretty sharp turnbles. The best steers last week were bringing only about 25?-33¾? a Ib. on the hoof v. 29?-37½? a year ago. Retail prices were down, but relatively not 'as much. Spokesmen for two big chains last week predicted further drops. Said one: "There will be huge quantities of cattle coming to market within the next month or so, and we fully expect prices to go down substantially." But packers pointed out that higher freight rates and higher packinghouse wages would make...
Before the 30,000 Georgians gathered in Hurt Park, Eisenhower soon struck the right note. Said he: "It seems that some of the opposition spokesmen look upon this meeting as a revolution . . . Through generations they have been counting the votes of the South ahead of time, along with the cemetery tombstones and the vacant lots that they carry in the election rolls in some of the cities they run up north." The Georgians, who had heard complaints that Ike wouldn't conduct a "fighting" campaign, gasped and then let out a mighty roar of approval...
...sitting here hoping that more will drop out," Business School spokesmen said last week when they revealed that preliminary registration figures showed that 643 men intend to enter this first-year class this fall...