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Open Tentflaps. Ike's outline of Republican principles was calculated to appeal to almost everyone and to offend hardly anyone, so much so that it provoked Washington Post's left-wing Democratic Cartoonist Herblock into one of the season's sharpest needlings of G.O.P. generalities (see cut). Among Ike's points: ¶ "The ultimate values of mankind are spiritual. These values include liberty, human dignity, opportunity, and equal rights and justice." ¶ "More jobs and better jobs, a flourishing agriculture, happier living for every family, peace and plenty for all people−these call...
...therefore, gentlemen, so far from pleading for my own sake, as one might expect, I plead for your sakes, that you may not offend about God's gift by condemning me. For if you put me to death, you will not easily find such another, really like something stuck on the state by the god, though it is rather laughable to say so; for the state is like a big thoroughbred horse, so big that he is a bit slow and heavy, and wants a gadfly to wake him up. I think the god put me on the state...
Believable Make-Believe. The week's outstanding show, and the one that was certain to offend no one of any age, sex, race or religion, was NBC's Peter Pan. Mary Martin came soaring out of a canvas sky to enchant some 55 million viewers-10 million fewer than watched last year's Peter Pan, but still far and away the largest audience for any TV event of the current season. This second look at Barrie's fable confirmed the remembered excellence of Jerome Robbins' production and the believable make-believe of Mary Martin...
...Francis Osborn, 26, spotted a bulldozer parked near a street-repair job, climbed aboard and happily chased ten policemen about the city streets, explained testily as he was booked for assault with a deadly weapon: "I just wanted to see if I could still run one." If Thy Brother Offend Thee. In Terre Haute, Ind., Frederick F. Wendholt, Bible salesman for the House of Harmony Co., angrily called police, complained that fellow Bible salesman Robert L. Allaman had assaulted him and tried to throw him out of the Filbeck Hotel in an effort to muscle in on his territory...
...publicity, the royal family and the Eden government have put themselves in a position where they cannot win. If, at the last minute, they persuade Margaret to send Townsend away, they will be undemocratic bullies in the eyes of many. If they give even reluctant consent, they will offend many others...