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...truce agreement been reached in Korea? Beneath the weird and interminable welter of words at Panmunjom, the reason is plain even to the newest soldier on the front...
...difficult to see how Senator Taft can lend a ceremony any non-partisan flavor, especially when he arrives amid a welter of handouts, Taft buttons, and all the other sundries of campaigning. The Young Republicans did not help much by advertising the celebration as a Taft question-and-answer program either. Even the speeches, so trite and innocent on the surface, were hardly unblemished paeans on behalf of patriotism...
...Easter in mid-20th century should be particularly significant. For modern man seems to live in a Good Friday age. Sheen believes that man, his faith in God shaken, has retreated within his own self, but has found there no peace, only shallow and temporary comforts. Disillusioned by a welter of scientific and political cure-alls, he looks for resurrection, but too often he wants it without sacrifice and before death -"promises of salvation without a cross, abandonment without sacrifices, Christ without His nails." Adds Sheen: "There is no pleasure without pain, no Easter without Good Friday...
Congress reacts to letters like the tides to the moon, and in election time the moon is full. Thus, when UMT ran into a welter of hostile letters, Congress sent it back to the Armed Services Committee...
...eyed, bewhiskered Kurt Carlsen said: "We have to get the passengers off." But how? Swooping lifeboats from the rescue vessels dared come little closer than a hundred yards amid the crazy welter of water; the Flying Enterprise boats were disabled or waterlogged. In matter-of-fact tones, Carlsen ordered that all must jump. A brave woman passenger, Mrs. Elsa Muller, went first, was picked up by a boat from the Southland. After that, with lifebelts strapped tight, more leaped or were pushed into the sea. A crewman jumped with each passenger...