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...professors are Morton Bloomfield, an authority on medieval literature, now at the Ohio State University, and Victorian literature scholar Jerome H. Buckley, now at Columbia...
...there was no inner circle of "initiates" with special knowledge, as in Gnosticism and the mystery religions. The minority, which holds that Christianity was originally esoteric, with secret teachings hidden from the masses of the faithful, received some surprising support last week from a meticulous scholar, Dr. Morton Smith, assistant professor of history at Manhattan's Columbia University and a specialist in ancient religions. Professor Smith read a paper to the Society of Biblical Literature and Exegesis describing his discovery of evidence that the author of the earliest Gospel, Mark, also wrote a secret Gospel that...
...Thruston Morton to the contrary, the election is really over, and Kennedy has won by a comfortable, if not comforting, margin of some 80 electoral votes. Thus any interest in the deliberations of the electoral college (which, by the way, met yesterday) was purely academic. The 14 unpledged Peck's Bad Boys from Alabama and Mississippi misbehaved, and there was a flutter of excitement over Kennedy's 55-vote lead in Hawaii, but the real issues in the campaign were, with one exception, resolved...
...chances were something like hitting the daily double five days in a row, but the Republican high command began to wonder if they weren't worth a bet. Three days after election, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton had asked party leaders in eleven states to evaluate the narrow Democratic results and see whether expensive recounts (e.g., $50 a ballot box or voting machine in Pennsylvania) would be worthwhile. Most of the party leaders sent negative replies. But last week, after an emergency meeting of the National Committee in Washington, G.O.P. investigators moved into eight marginal states (Illinois, Texas, Missouri...
Just how narrow the Kennedy victory was could be seen in the arithmetic: including shaky California and Illinois, Kennedy had won 332 electoral votes; Nixon, with razor-close Alaska, had 191; the popular-vote spread was a hairline 279,000. It was so close that Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton called for a recount of the votes in Kennedy-edged Texas, Illinois, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Some Republicans even dared hope that the recounts might still add up to a Nixon victory (but Nixon disassociated himself from the whole project...