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...inherit and share the humane and religious culture of Europe must examine our collective conscience to determine if we are doing our best to meet the grave threat to our free institutions. I believe that we must rid ourselves of certain false habits of thought of which we have all been more or less guilty...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. verdict: out. Gruff George Meany let it be known that the door would be open for the Teamsters' return after expulsion if they should get rid of Hoffa. Nonetheless, the delegates were well aware that their decision might plunge Big Labor into a near civil war as they trudged out of the Convention Hall to a tune barked out by the organ: Anything Goes...
...Bishop of Rochester, "than that which emanates from homosexual practice. There are such things as sodomy clubs. There was one in Oxford between the wars and another in Cambridge, which shamelessly sported a tie, [but] I cannot believe with the most reverend Primate that the best way of getting rid of these clubs is to indulge them...
...magazine proudly claims 50 million atheists for Russia back in 1935, it hazards no guess as to how many there are today in the 200 million population, reports merely that the number of believers "is continuing to dwindle." This does not mean, though, "that the ideological struggle . . . to rid all believers of religious superstition has receded into the background...
...over its head and withdrew its request. " But the issue was joined. At the hearing, Negroes were split; several testified that there was no sense going all the way across town just to make an issue of Lindley Park. Some white spokesmen argued that the city should get rid of the headache by closing both pools. Last week the city council did even more; it voted (7 to 1) to sell both pools at public auction...