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...continued building up its nuclear and conventional forces to strengthen its military might around the world. The Army started raising its strength from eleven to a planned 16 combat divisions, got a badly needed infusion of modern equipment. Draft calls were increased, and some 156,000 reservists and National Guardsmen were called to active duty (some of them have been screaming ever since). Down to the smallest detail, Kennedy himself discussed ways in which the U.S. might combat Communist guerrillas in strategic areas of the earth. In a meeting with military leaders to decide which weapons ought to be sent...
...when all the tinsel and touting are swept away, what they want, after all, is the pleasure of giving, a tradition and a need that is older than Christendom. Pagans celebrated the winter solstice with bonfires to strengthen the sun in its course, exchanged wreaths and candles and crowded their streets in noisy processions. The Romans celebrated the Saturnalia (Dec. 19-25) by giving presents to the poor and in return received garlands, tapers or grains of frankincense. On the Kalends of January (Jan. 1-3), Roman men gave one another "honeyed things" to ensure a year of sweetness, lamps...
...indeed precisely this desire of enabling the church of today to carry out this sublime office more effectively that led us to convoke the second ecumenical Vatican Council.* For it is our hope that the impressive union of the church's worldwide hierarchy will not only serve to strengthen the bonds of unity in faith, worship and government, but will also be a means of attracting the attention of countless believers in Christ and move them to come round 'the Great Shepherd of the Flock...
Students, though avowedly communist, show the same lack of commitment to dogma, both speakers agreed. Kennedy commended the Political Institute in Costa Rica, a school educating the democratically oriented in an attempt to "strengthen their ideology and train them to organize parties that can combat the communists...
...vital, therefore, that Tocsin read and consider a wide index of student attitudes at their organizational meeting tonight. Hopefully, the type of support they receive will strengthen the likelihood of a useful and pertinent demonstration in Washington...