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...Persuasive" Compromise. Tenuous and documentably erroneous as much of the anti-Warren Report literature is, even responsible commentators share the rising feeling that the Administration should reopen the case and clear up-once and for all-the nagging discrepancies. Their contention is simply that so many questions are being raised about certain details in the report that now there is reasonable doubt cast over nearly everything...
Republicans, who had previously hacked out only a tenuous toehold in the South, last week went a long way toward making it a firm foothold. In addition to returning its first popularly elected U.S. Senator in Tennessee, the G.O.P. provided Governors in Arkansas and Florida for the first time since Reconstruction and may possibly claim a gubernatorial victory in Georgia as well. In 13 Southern and border states, the G.O.P. made a record modern-day gain of nine congressional seats. This year, moreover, many of the South's leading Republican candidates were able to discard the Goldwater umbrella...
...Zorba-style at Greek picnics or playing boccie with the paesam, is a more spirited stump performer than the reserved McCormack. Also going for Volpe are the state's prosperity and a generally impressive record in office. McCormack's own poll, completed last week, gave Volpe a tenuous advantage...
Since 1958, surfing has become so fashionable and so ubiquitous that New York hippies and Nebraska teenagers can talk convincingly about "wiping out" on the Newport Beach "Wedge." Singing groups have accumulated fortunes by exploiting tenuous attachments to the sport...
...sinner tries to regularize the relationship by remarrying outside the church, he becomes a spiritual outcast. Lepp also argues that in its early years the church found it convenient to dissolve the marriages of powerful lords and kings. Church historians concede that such annulments were often granted on tenuous grounds, and that the current strict attitude to divorce did not begin to take shape until the 12th century. Lepp concludes that the church, even while holding fast to its belief in the sanctity of marriage, ought to be less rigoristic about divorced Catholics who wed a second time...