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...moral or religious level. Unlike previous hearings, there was a notable lack of reaction from the Catholic Church. Cardinal Cushing in fact stated that "although natural law does not change, our here-and-now interpretation and awareness of it does." His refusal to oppose the amendment caused a great stir in the Catholic world. He was seconded by many liberal Catholic officials in the Boston area who articles redefining the Church's role in a pluralistic society and urged the Church not to impede non-Catholics' freedom of choice. Catholic thinking in general seemed to have changed: in a nation...
Kennedy's campaign pledge to send "the best Americans we can get to speak for our country abroad" caused an instantaneous stir across the nation. Mail cascaded into Washington. One of the first things the new President Kennedy did after taking office was to direct his brother-in-law Sargent Shriver to determine whether foreign governments were interested in receiving Volunteers...
...Beneficiaries. With people like Olivier in sympathy, the stage began to stir. In England, with the theater so rooted in tradition, the government nourished the renaissance with money. A government-appointed Arts Council had opened the cash drawers in 1946, now began spending widely; last season alone contributed more than $2.5 million for the dramatic arts. The most spectacular beneficiaries today are also the newest-the National Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company...
...behest, Queen Elizabeth suddenly commuted the death sentence of two Rhodesian blacks convicted of set ting houses afire and awaiting execution in a Salisbury prison. The hope was that the voice of the Queen would stir the fire of revolt in Smith's prison authorities, but that hope seemed faint at best. Shrugging off an official warning that executing the two "loyal subjects of the Queen" would be the same thing as murder, Smith made the obvious reply. Wilson, he charged, was trying to "embroil Her Majesty in politics," something that Prime Ministers do at a risk to themselves...
...France, where kids barely out of diapers often start taking a thimbleful of diluted wine, Chafetz' proposal would stir only some Gallic shrugs, but most Americans popped a gasket. Did he not know, asked one of his listeners, that drinking is illegal in most schools? The beverage laws, scoffed Chafetz, "are absurd." "Alert your school boards to the dangers of this program," cried Mrs. Fred J. Tooze, president of the W.C.T.U. Mrs. Jennelle Moorhead, national president of the P.T.A., called the idea "outrageous." Iowa Governor Harold E. Hughes, who freely admits to an alcoholic past, said...