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...quarreled with them. While other abolitionists interpreted the Constitution as an anti-slavery document,* Garrison denounced the Constitution as a "covenant with death," and in the most theatrical gesture of his career burned a copy of it at a mass meeting. "By 1837," writes Thomas, "antislavery had reached a crossroad. One road led into the broad highway of American political reform . . . that connected with the continuity and conservative tradition of American life. The other road was a highroad of moral idealism, which cut directly across the conservative pattern of American society to revolution, secession and civil war. This...
Nonetheless, from every hamlet and crossroad, pundits pushed the panic button for Republicans after studying the skies (large parts of Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma and Iowa, as well as Kansas, are suffering from drought) and the statistics (Republicans cringed at an Agriculture Department report last week showing that farm prices had gone down by .5% between mid-August and mid-September). Wrote Columnist Stewart Alsop under a What Cheer, Iowa dateline: "Candidate Eisenhower is in deep, deep trouble in the typical Midwestern farm community which surrounds this small town...
Tourists driving through Eastern Canada this summer will spot new blue-and-white service stations at many a crossroad and street corner. They are the gas and oil outlets of Canadian Petrofina, an aggressive subsidiary of La Compagnie Financière Beige des Pétroles, which broke into the market only three years ago and has already moved from nowhere to fourth place (behind Imperial, British American, and Shell) among Canada's 19 gas and oil distributors...
...highway-skirting Akron, Cleveland and Toledo-connects the Pennsylvania Turnpike with the one now being built across northern Indiana. By next fall motorists and truckers will be able to drive 812 miles, from Manhattan to Chicago's outskirts, without running into a single traffic light or crossroad. Total toll charges...
Dwight Eisenhower and his advisers knew, on Stalin's death, that history had reached a crossroad, and that it was imperative for the U.S. Government to restate its direction in foreign policy. But the President would not be hurried; he wanted Stalin's successors to show their hand first. He rejected an early proposal for a special message to Congress, another for a fireside chat to the nation. Then last week, choosing his platform and timing carefully, the President went before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington's Statler Hotel to deliver...