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...missionaries should not merely confine themselves to "preaching the Gospel" (more than 70%), and that the U.S. should put the needs of underdeveloped lands ahead of its own desires in giving technical and economic aid (82%). In each case, the percentage of laymen who went along was much smaller. Widest disparity: wasting time, an indulgence that only about half of the laymen consider sinful...
...earnest. The exchanges would never become textbook classics in political dialogue-for one thing, constant translations seemed to bring out a simplified pidgin style of discourse. And the cold war has reached a point where the same dialogue works for both sides: Nixon got his biggest cheers and widest smiles by calling out that old Communist slogan, Mir i Druzhba (Peace and Friendship). It was what everybody wanted to hear, wanted to believe...
...Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, have made a deliberate new policy decision: the congressional leadership sees no profit in fighting President Eisenhower's legislative program, will go along pretty much with what the President wants for the rest of the session. And the decision, in turn, has signaled the widest and bitterest split in the Democratic Party in years...
...artist who joined the Department two years ago. Under his guidance students experiment with the properties of line, color, texture and the various media. The courses are not directed to architectural design but are rather concerned with having the student gain experience with "the fundamentals of design" in its widest sense; and consequently the students play with three dimensional wire models, geometric patterns, and metal masks. The presence of a first rate artist directing the courses is note-worthy; it is comparable in kind, if perhaps not in degree, to the writing courses of MacLeish and the composition courses...
...wanted in trade for his old, homemade soapbox racer. Brightly, the Keef decided that he'd better take a ride-just to make sure the deal was fair and square. Democrat Kefauver, all of 6 ft. 3 in., hunched himself in, buzzed off down a hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that momentum cannot be legislated, he reached for the brake, found none, in desperation napped a leg gingerly over the side. That slowed the racer, but a senatorial foot was bent under a wheel, and over went the bug, Keef and all. Shaken...