Word: germane
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...Exception. With his 106,000 plurality, Kennedy showed some remarkable strengths and some revealing weaknesses. His support from Wisconsin's large Roman Catholic population (32%) almost amounted to a bloc vote-from the German and Polish Catholics in Milwaukee's Fourth District to the thousands of rural Republicans who crossed over to vote for him. (One interesting exception to the rule: in economically hard-pressed Ashland and Iron counties, both over 40% Catholic, Hubert Humphrey won.) Though Humphrey was endorsed by U.A.W.-C.I.O. leaders, Kennedy swept the labor vote, which is heavily Catholic. One pro-Humphrey U.A.W. official...
Those basically defensive weapons have become less effective as offensive weapons have become more sophisticated. World War II showed how difficult it was to stop attacking planes; no U.S. bombing raid was ever beaten back, and the worst loss rate suffered by the German Luftwaffe in the Battle of Britain was 8% per mission. In the age of missilery and megatons, the problem is even more complex-and costly. To create the Nike-Zeus anti-missile missile system would cost the U.S. an estimated $14 billion-more than the entire Atlas program-and then no one could dream that...
...German Gambit. Though he passed off Kir's "kidnaping" with aplomb ("Canon Kir is absent physically, but spiritually he is with us"), Khrushchev was clearly conscious of the depth of Catholic hostility to him. Carefully, he told reporters: "I agree with Christ in most of his teachings. Besides, they fit Communism. There is only one point where I do not agree: when Christ says one has to turn the other cheek. For me, if a man strikes me on the cheek, I knock his head off." Nikita's preference for knocking heads became clear after a visit...
...between Macmillan and Secretary of State Christian Herter, at which Macmillan talked ominously of economic war between Britain's Outer Seven and Europe's Common Market unless the U.S. steps in. As the report had it, Macmillan warned that Britain would not sit idly by while a German-led Common Market squeezes it out of Europe and achieves hegemony on the Continent. Macmillan reportedly recalled that in the past Britain had joined hands with Russia to crush Napoleon's France; the British now might be forced to lead another peripheral alliance against Europe, particularly in view...
MACMILLAN DENIGRATES BONN IN WASHINGTON, THREATENS REPRISALS . . . EUROPE FACING RIFT. Alarmed and angry, West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano summoned the British ambassador for an official explanation...