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...part series on U.S. Christian cults and soon began to regret it. Author Marcus Bach, writer on offbeat religions (Strange Altars), was treating his subjects so sympathetically that sect-shopping Century readers were writing in to ask how they could get in touch. Managing Editor Theodore A. Gill, a staunch Presbyterian, grimly published all the articles-on Psychiana, Jehovah's Witnesses, Unity and Baha'i; then he tore off an editorial taking the sects apart...
...more obdurate press than in Scranton (pop. 127,600). Their most dogged foe over the years has been sensitive, white-haired Thomas F. Murphy, editorial-page editor of the Democratic evening Times (circ. 57,429). A Timesman for 60 of his 77 years, fighting Tom Murphy is a staunch unionist; in 1904 he helped found the Newswriters Union, a forerunner of the American Newspaper Guild. But in recent years, as labor goons and commissars pushed their thumbs deeper into Scranton's economic windpipe, old Tom hammered tirelessly at union despotism...
...Iranian oil at the Israeli port of Elath, the Saudis informed U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold that they considered the gulf a closed Arab sea, and that if Israeli ships tried to pass they would "oppose" them. In rapid succession Iran, Iraq, Syria, and even the West's staunch friend Lebanon, registered their solidarity with Nasser over the gulf passageway...
Though many of the Administration's most vocal critics are confirmed right-wingers who never approved of Eisenhower's brand of Republicanism except as a way to win elections, some of Ike's heretofore staunch backers have also taken issue with the Administration. Earlier this month Frazar B. Wilde, President of Connecticut General Life Insurance Co. and a member of the Committee for Economic Development (which has usually been in Ike's corner), warned a congressional committee that the rising level of federal spending would lead to more inflation, questioned the need for increased federal funds...
Judy's papa-in-law (Salvatore Baccaloni) is a staunch Roman Catholic who considers the child she is carrying to be illegitimate because she and Nick were not married in church. "Whatsamatta?" he bellows. "You don' lika da Pope?" Sure enough, after rollicking through the freshest, funniest, most healthily grown-up comedy that Hollywood has produced in years, Judy finds herself entering a maternity ward in her wedding dress...