Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Organized religion has almost always been opposed to advances in religious thought. It crucified Jesus. It burned Servetus, and banished Roger Williams. Now Tillich is meeting with the same kind of opposition in a more civilized form...
...back from a tour of Europe (a must for potential candidates), where he visited NATO's General Lauris Norstad and West Berlin's Mayor Willy Brandt ("great fella"), handsome Stu Symington held a news conference. Was he a candidate for the Democratic nomination? Reply: "I appreciate the thought. But at this time I have no organization and no plans." But would he refuse a draft? Reply: "I'm in the business of politics. Of course I wouldn't refuse. I wouldn't refuse anything like that." Stu Symington had avoided saying anything divisive: everyone...
Grinned George Meany as Mitchell sat down: "You know, for a minute I thought he was going to say he would meet me in Macy's window...
...London last week an earsplitting verbal thunderstorm played about the grey but unbowed head of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, first Viscount of El Alamein. Monty had decided to fly off to Moscow to see Khrushchev. In almost unanimous disapproval, the British press made it plain that it thought Monty would somehow foul up the summit conference. "The idea of you having a heart-to-heart talk with Khrushchev gives us the collywobbles," cried the Laborite Daily Herald. The Daily Sketch had some advice "to an old and meddling soldier: FADE AWAY." In just as unseasonably warm tones, the British press...
...Where's the band, Blanche? I thought you said we were gonna sing for a bunch of Harvard boys...