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Hughes is a reasonable alternative to the party candidates. He is that occasional but unusual man in American politics, the intellectual radical who wants to widen the range of political discursion. His voice is an extremely useful one at a time when the President, discouraged by a balky Congress, apparently supposes that there is little national support for his most liberal legislation, and insignificant support for legislation even more liberal. Nobody, he evidently feels, is to the left of him; therefore he must moderate his 1960 platform. Carrying through the New Deal programs to their likely conclusions, for example...
Vellucci said he had made "a personal survey" of the Square's traffic problem, and that the only answer was to widen Mass Ave. by destroying the University buildings...
...religion itself, of promoting religion in a country and a world where people are indifferent to it." For the specific problems, Ramsey has prescribed some solid measures. Through widespread recruitment and expansion of training facilities, the margin of new clergymen over deaths and retirements is slowly beginning to widen; and last week the church got its first fulltime recruiter of clergymen...
...ineffective. Its usefulness depends on the failure of Cuba, and Cuba will not fail; the island will not crumble and fall into the sea, and so long as the U.S. has some control over its people's hunger, it will continue to be an issue. It will widen the splits between left and right in the hemisphere to the extent where neither we nor the other Alliance countries can administer the apolitical aid program we want. Above all, it will again and again demand military action from the U.S. with all the fire that invasion and retaliation can involve...
...largely ceremonial figurehead -"an announcer of ambassadors" in his scornful words, who "reigns but does not rule." Presently the President is chosen by a college of 80,000 electors: municipal and departmental officials, members of Parliament, and representatives of France's Overseas Territories. De Gaulle seeks to widen this mandate...