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Church concedes that the U.S. has no present alternative except to continue its military support of the Saigon government, but argues that if the situation in Viet Nam can be stabilized sufficiently so "that it would be possible to go with some trump cards to the conference table, then I think we might reach an international agreement, declaring this whole region to be neutral, and requiring the withdrawal of all foreign troops." Such an arrangement might be guaranteed by "our own military power"-just how, Church does...
Okio: A magic name and a potent G.O.P. organization are 47-year-old Robert A. Taft Jr.'s trump cards, but Goldwater's name on top of the ticket is a deuce. Even so, it would probably take a 500,000-vote Johnson win to sweep crusty Incumbent Stephen M. Young, 75, into a second term. Leaning strongly to Taft...
...Negro had played his trump card: he had reminded this group of white liberals that he is black, and has had experiences they can never know without changing their color. There was nothing the whites could say. For most Harvard undergraduates argue from emotion: they base their judgments about things moral and political on their own feelings--and by asserting his emotional uniqueness, the Negro had deprived the whites of any grounds for refutation...
...Negro had played his trump card: he had reminded this group of white liberals that he is black, and has had experiences they can never know without changing their color. There was nothing the whites could say. For most Harvard undergraduates argue from emotion: they base their judgments about things moral and political on their own feelings--and by asserting his emotional uniqueness, the Negro had deprived the whites of any grounds for refutation...
...somber, brooding mirage of sets by Mario Cristini (who spent 25 years with the San Carlo Opera in Naples), a cast of 66, a 62-voice chorus and the 74-piece Indiana University Philharmonic Orchestra, Parsifal would have done almost any opera house proud. Said Bain, who can trump any compliment: "Indiana University's production of Parsifal symbolizes a new kind of education in the musical arts...