Word: presentation
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Michigan, Ohio, Illinois and California-where Kennedy confidently counted his Catholicism an asset rather than a liability. It would be won or lost in the nation as a whole. For this is the first truly national campaign in which both candidates will have undreamed-of exposure, ample time to present their cases and display their judgment and temperament-a campaign in which sectional, class and sectarian viewpoints will count for less than ever before...
Idaho's Gracie Pfost disagrees: "I really don't think being a woman in politics is different from being a man. After all, elections are based on the issues, and any capable woman can develop an understanding of the issues, can present them and can win at the polls." Margaret Smith thinks that sex has nothing to do with it: "I consider that women are people, and that the record they make is a matter of ability and desire rather than of their sex. I came here as a United States Senator, not as a woman...
...Vatican, which had refused to send official representatives to the World Council general assemblies at Amsterdam in 1948, and Evanston, Ill. in 1954, had recently created a secretariat for Christian unity to keep in touch with the ecumenical movement. The secretary of the new body, Msgr. Johannes Willebrands, was present at the St. Andrews meeting with another Catholic observer...
...points the world record of Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov, 28. In the eyes of many coaches of many sports, this qualifies Johnson as the finest athlete in the world. Johnson remains unsatisfied. "Rafer has always seen his objectives with almost frightening clarity." says a friend. The present objective-amounting almost to an obsession-of Decathlon Star Rafer Johnson is to win a gold medal in Rome...
Making Millionaires. In city and suburb alike, says HOUSE & HOME, the present tax structure harnesses the profit motive backward: it abets speculation, penalizes development. Underdeveloped land and vacant city lots are taxed, on the average, at less than 25% valuation across the U.S. v. 40.8% for business properties. Land, comprising one-third of the U.S. national wealth, carries less than 5% of the total tax load. Not surprisingly, land speculation has made more millionaires since World War II than any other form of U.S. business or investment...