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...Veteran. Charlie became a familiar figure at political rallies, usually edged his way to the speakers' platform. To widen his connections, he wrote himself membership cards in the Knights of Columbus, Ku Klux Klan, B'nai B'rith, the Communist Party and Gerald L. K. Smith's America First. He slipped into the studio of radio station KFWB during a memorial broadcast for F.D.R., and was on the air before anyone could stop...
LAKE SUCCESS, N. Y., November 5--The Steering Committee of the United Nations Assembly tonight approved a United States proposal to widen the permanent headquarters site question to include consideration of New York City end San Francisco...
From the Sudan south, the Central African bastion would widen out. From it, the British would be able to slam the gates of Suez on any aggressor. They could rake an enemy in the Persian oilfields with rockets launched in Kenya or Khartoum. No threat to a peaceful Soviet Union, the African girdle might be a potent barrier to Russian expansion across the Middle East toward India...
...dapper, scholarly Harold MacMillan, sent out from Tory headquarters to play the provincial circuit, adopted a cautious politician's line. He told disgruntled Tories that their best hope for a return to power was not to commit themselves to a program but to widen the party's field "and bring in all who want free progress." "Like the parson who was against sin." he said, "I am against Socialism. . . . The great conflict to come will be fundamentally a conflict between God and the anti-Christ." His audiences applauded the generalities, but were not satisfied...
...average man doesn't read a novel in order to see how many faults he can find in it, or how superior he can feel to the writer. He reads to be entertained and, incidentally, to widen his vision of the world in which he lives. If a writer takes him into the presence of Roosevelt, Hitler, and Stalin, it would never occur to him to require legal proof that such an experience ever did happen to any one man in the course of one year...