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...remains to be seen. But the appointment will at least flash the six-foot, well-bred (Yale '24) image of Chester Bowles before the convention delegates and onto the nation's TV screens. That will be more important for Bowles than for Kennedy. Reason: out of nowhere in the wide-open race, Bowles has become the darkest dark horse for the Democratic nomination. Bowles-for-President groups have sprung up in points as far apart as California and Florida, Michigan and North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Missouri. Last January he won a Page One endorsement from the New Republic...
...Wide-Open Windows. In analyzing Protestant theology of the 19th century, Barth sets forth the context...
...weakness of 19th century theology, as Barth sees it, was that it tried above all to confront and adapt itself to the times. Through theology's wide-open doors and windows "came so much stimulation for thought and discussion that there was hardly time or love or zeal left for the task to be accomplished within the house itself. With all its energies captivated by the world, 19th century theology achieved little in terms of a new and positive understanding of Christian truth...
Edited Disk. Tough, trenchant and tenacious, Arsenio Lacson reminds many Americans of Manhattan's rambunctious Fiorello La Guardia, who also served three terms. Like La Guardia, Lacson cleaned up a corrupt administration and a wide-open city; he fired 600 incompetent job holders. Night after night, Lacson patrols Manila in a black police car, returns from time to time to a corner table at the Bay View or Filipinas hotels, where he listens to complaints and requests, or talks profusely on a plugged-in telephone, punctuating his conversations with shots of whisky and four-letter expletives. Sunday nights, Lacson...
...area of the world bigger than the U.S. and Western Europe combined, the U.S., the Soviet Union and ten other nations agreed last week to disarmament and a wide-open, no-strings-attached inspection system as well. The vast (5,500,000 sq. mi.) continent of Antarctica was guaranteed for 34 years as a peaceful scientific preserve in a treaty signed with full diplomatic pomp in a State Department auditorium. Nuclear explosions are specifically forbidden; any signatory may send an observer anywhere in the Antarctica at any time to look at anything...