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...Kenneth F. W. Prior calls his preaching evangelism, the quiet religious spirit of this witty Englishman is far removed from the frantic dogmatism of Bible Belt fundamentalism. Visiting for a week under the auspices of the Harvard Christian Fellowship, he is not trying to gain 'converts' but rather to stir apathetic students to inquire into their religious-or atheistic-beliefs. He feels American and British "come from the same stock and tend to be slow-moving," and thinks they need prodding...
President Kennedy's action last fortnight in ordering Chief of Naval Operations Arleigh Burke to rewrite almost completely a speech that minced no words about Russia brought press growls from several quarters. Said the New York Daily News: "Such suppressions can only stir up rumors, gossip and exaggerated guesses as to what the muzzled persons would say if permitted to talk...
...Should the U.S. seem in danger of losing the debate on representation, Ambassador Stevenson could validly argue that the question belonged in the U.N.'s "important" category, requiring a two-thirds majority. Such a move might well stir up neutralist efforts to allow both Chinese governments in the U.N.-a prospect that equally horrifies Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung, but has plenty of U.N. backing in the Afro-Asian bloc...
...readers. News of a radar mistake and a bomber alert is reported, if at all, in a note on the sports page. When the ingenious Mr. Kahn writes a book listing death figures for the next war and urging us to build shelters, there is little public stir...
...with her mother-in-law, the Countess of Rosse in Ireland, Margaret and Hus band Antony Armstrong-Jones booked to go on an Irish commercial airliner, tourist class. Possible reason for their plebeian style: if they came winging in over Irish ground in a British military aircraft, it might stir up the wrong kind of feelings...