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...Worry. At week's end, Sam Rayburn dropped in for a couple of days, and kept himself carefully covered to avoid getting sunburned. The President gave him a sport shirt (coffee-colored with figures of cranes and palm fronds) and took a walk with him down the beach. As Sam left, he told reporters that the country had nothing to worry about. "I don't see anything for anyone to be scared about," he said. "If a major recession or depression comes-which I do not expect-it will not be justified by our economic situation but will...
...committee has decided that in order to avoid discrimination, the DP's accepted will include an equal number of Protestants, Catholics, and Jews...
...golden moment" in Canadian public life, sober-sided Mackenzie King could not think of an answer. Said he: "I am proudest . . . of keeping this nation united." On questions about the new cabinet and the next election, King was his artful self in saying nothing. "I have been advised to avoid controversial issues," he said...
...Capitalism. In Russia there are millions of Orthodox who are loyal citizens of a Communist state. In Poland there are convinced Communists who regularly attend Mass. In Czechoslovakia among the members of some of the Reformed Churches there are to be found convinced Communists . . . The Church therefore should avoid an indiscriminate condemnation of Communism, which would compel many, especially of the younger generation, to feel that they must choose between Christianity and Communism...
...Miss Tatlock, Brackett breaks three major movie taboos: a little fun is poked at insanity, the plot contains a suggestion of incest, and a pair of unregenerate frauds are treated with sympathy. By good humor and skillful gags he manages to avoid giving too much offense. His main device is humor, backed by humaneness. He makes the imbecile (John Lund) likable; he rouses pity for the girl (Wanda Hendrix) who believes, mistakenly, that she is falling in love with her dim-witted brother; and he makes a fair case for the idea that his swindlers (Lund and Barry Fitzgerald...