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...three-room Chicago office by Harry Ev-eryingham, 53, a former radio writer and adman who formed the organization seven years ago. Everyingham believes that the Communist takeover in the U.S. is well along, and that "there are many who are working with the Communists to accomplish this." The titular president of his organization is Tulsa Evangelist Billy Hargis, 36, whose material formed the base for an Air Force manual attacking the Protestant clergy last year. Hargis is convinced that Christianity is a fine place far Communist infiltration because "the Christian idea of brotherhood means to a lot of people...
...come in case of continued defiance of the law. Still in the offing: charges against party officers for failure to register as Communist agents. In an obvious attempt to minimize the legal damage, the party last week dropped-at least for the record-all but three of its titular officials. Left with the possibility of five-year prison sentences were Party Chairman Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, General Secretary Gus Hall and National Secretary Benjamin Davis...
...Government at a pair of flossy Manhattan functions. (One Eisenhower reflection: "The effect of pressure groups, the pressure groups of labor and the agricultural community . . . is the enemy of really intelligent attacks on our problems.") And when Republican National Chairman William Miller opined that Ike, not Nixon, was titular leader of the Republican Party, the old soldier plumped for Nixon, but added: "If somebody else thinks something else, I'm not going to fight...
...partly because he can help them win and strengthen the party, partly because he hopes to have the favor returned at the" 1964 G.O.P. convention. Few Nixon strategists seriously consider the idea of bypassing '64 for '68; win or lose, the next Republican presidential nominee would become titular head of the party, and Nixon would be frozen...
...Father Ryan went back to Chicago in 1958 to be consecrated by the late Cardinal Stritch as Titular Bishop of Margo and Prelate Nullius of Santarém. He recalls his return to the Amazon as a kind of replay of the triumphal procession in Aïda. "They put me into my old jeep, all decorated with white crepe paper and gave me a bouncing ride over every dirt street in town. All the local dignitaries gave talks, and since it was an election year, they turned them into political speeches. The choir sang like crazy, and I blessed...