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...Sharpest assault of all was being mounted by the National Association of Evangelicals, embracing 38 fundamentalist denominations with a claimed membership of 10 million. It has urged its member ministers-some 28,000 in all 50 states-to deliver anti-Catholic sermons on next week's Reformation Sunday, which commemorates the beginning of the Protestant Reformation in 1517. Tinny "campaign" buttons are being circulated, each bearing a gold cross and the inscription: 1517-Reformation Sunday, Oct. 30, 1960. Church members will be urged to wear them through Election Day as "simple and unobtrusive Protestant identification...
Uneasy Consciences. Approaching 70, De Gaulle is showing the strain of gathering burdens-in red-rimmed eyes sunk deep into their sockets, in the sagging greyness of flesh on his jowls, in the thickness of his voice. He is under the sharpest attack since he returned to power in 1958. In trying to settle the Algeria problem, he has not finally quelled the discontent in the restive army, and now pressures are rising in France-from political parties, trade unions and intellectuals-to start political and military talks with the Algerians at once, without waiting, as De Gaulle once insisted...
...newsmen, but never has it had to take such heat from a girl. Six months ago, when she got a job on the capital's influential (circ. 15,000) afternoon daily La Hora, Irma Flaquer, 22, lost no time establishing herself as one of the government's sharpest critics. Writing to help support her two children by an early, unsuccessful marriage, the pretty young newshen in her column denounces governmental corruption, ridicules its foreign policies, champions women's rights, favors birth control, blames the Latins' concept of manhood for the evils of prostitution, campaigns against poverty...
...businessmen last week anxiously looked for signs of a fall upsurge, there were few sights to cheer them. Stock buyers took such a doleful view that the Dow-Jones industrial average suffered an 8.58-point drop to 612.27-its sharpest one-day decline in more than six months -before steadying and rising at week's end. Best news came from retailers helped by record sales of back-to-school clothing and heavy traffic in auto supplies and small appliances. Sears, Roebuck & Co. and Spiegel both reported that August sales soared to alltime peaks for that month. Though the auto...
...first political excursion into the South since his nomination, Jack Kennedy covered exactly six miles. Over the Potomac and into the Washington bedroom community of Alexandria he drove with Vice Presidential Nominee Lyndon Johnson to draw the sharpest bead yet on Vice President Nixon. A partisan audience of 15,000, overflowing the George Washington High School stadium, roared with every shot...