Word: countering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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North Carolina (14): The Democrats, boasting their biggest and best organization in any presidential campaign, are working hard to counter anti-Catholic feeling and to offset Republicans in the booming Piedmont cities and in the western mountain counties. The Democrats have sent in Harry Truman to talk common sense to his fellow Baptists, have shown the Kennedy Houston film three times. A sitdown by old-line Democrats could throw it to Nixon. UNPREDICTABLE...
...Lunch Counter Victories...
...rally represents the first efforts of the 1960-61 academic year to follow up victories won by last year's campaign against lunch counter discrimination. From February to August the civil rights groups organized picketing against Boston branches of the Woolworth's chain stores...
...veteran Andover team, guided by Frank DiClements, whom Getchell calls the best scholastic soccer coach in the country," has prepared a special defense for Yardling captain Chris O'Hiri. To counter the effects of double-teaming on O'Hiri center forward, Getchell may switch the high-scoring Nigerian with right wing Kluflo, or simply have O'Hiri move toward the outside when Andover jams the middle...
...director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and one of Roman Catholicism's best preachers, Bishop Sheen was in Argentina last week lending his help to the biggest Catholic proselytizing crusade ever undertaken in Latin America. Its purpose: to counter the spread of anti-Catholicism that is sapping the church of its traditional strength. In all, Fulton Sheen made twelve TV appearances, said Mass in humble parish churches as well as in Buenos Aires' cathedral, delivered lectures at the University of Buenos Aires' law school and at the Holy Cross Institute...