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Many a political pro, with respect for the power and patronage a Governor can wield, looks first to the results of the nation's gubernatorial races for a key to the political future. Of the 34 governorship races next month, these-plus New York-are the key seven...
Greeting the Protestant delegates at a monster rally in Tokyo's vast Sports Arena, Japan's Buddhist Prime Minister Nobusuke Kishi said politely: "Japan is not a Christian country, but Japanese Christians wield a powerful moral influence out of all proportion to their numbers." Assembled in Tokyo, just 99 years after the first Protestant mission was organized in Japan, were 3,000 Japanese delegates and 1,200 delegates from 62 other nations. The occasion: the 14th World Convention on Christian Education, sponsored by the World Council of Christian Education and Sunday School Association. Theme of the convention...
...Lord Randolph Henry Spencer Churchill, brother of the eighth duke, restored the family dignity, whetted the sword that his greater son would wield. "He was a little man, full of vibrant nervous energy." Lord Randolph feared nobody-least of all Liberal Leader William Ewart Gladstone, whose fondness for the healthy exercise of axing trees he excoriated with pungent brevity: "The forest laments, in order that Mr. Gladstone may perspire." Other of his brisk remarks have passed into the language, e.g., his description of snobbish businessmen as "lords of suburban villas . . . owners of vineries and pineries"; of Gladstone...
...crash grimly underscored the stacks of longstanding complaints about the U.S.'s air traffic control systems: CAA and military ground control are poorly coordinated, wield separate authority over an overcrowded air space (11,000 planes fly the U.S. skies in any hour of the day), and CAA itself is badly understaffed and underequipped. "We cannot excuse the Government," said angered U.A.L. President William Allan Patterson, "for trying to solve a problem with divided authority and responsibility. I can only say that I hope the conscience of those in the Government agencies involved is as clear as I believe ours...
...alone takes 112 subscriptions. So influential is Women's Wear that a four-line story on a back page about a dress that is selling well will bring dozens of inquiring phone calls from retailers around the country. Women's Wear does its level best to wield its power impersonally, never disparages any style, and like the other Fairchild publications runs no editorials. The result is a paper that is as plain as gingham and just as reliable...