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...Catholic vote is supposed to be powerful, the voters pulled a switch, defeated Democratic Senatorial Candidate Frank Hogan, a Catholic. Said Iowa's Congressman Coad, himself a Disciples of Christ minister: "I think the country is 30 years beyond 1928, and I mean that not only from a standpoint of time but from the standpoint of this subject. It's just not an issue...
Notable Failures. Admitting defeat within four hours after the Eastern polling places had closed, Republican National Chairman Meade Alcorn grimly promised that the campaign for the 1960 elections would "begin on November 5, 1958." From the Republican standpoint, it would have to. The 1958 elections proved that party organization work is a fulltime job, that last-minute campaign efforts are not enough. President Eisenhower, entering the campaign in its last weeks, notably failed-as he had failed in 1954-to reverse the Democratic trends in California, West Virginia, Kansas, Iowa and Colorado (and Ike's own Pennsylvania Congressman, Republican...
...audience moved out of Sanders and became the congregation; the scene was played on a specially constructed altar at the north end, while fire-department searchlights outdoors focussed on the stained-glass windows over-head. The consensus was reflected in the comment of one critic, "From every conceivable standpoint Saint Joan is a high-water mark in Harvard dramatics...
...small drawing account of $37.5 million in the hope that Brazil would go and sin no more. If Brazil had had to take this lecture from the U.S., the howl in Rio would have carried all the way to Washington. Said a foreign diplomat in Washington: "From the U.S. standpoint, it is a good thing to have the lightning go down somebody else's pole for a change...
...turns out some of the handsomest newspaper color work in the nation. Publisher Snedden will not say how much money he has spent on his crusade ("Too damn much-just ask my creditors"), but he doesn't really care. Says he contentedly: "From a strictly business standpoint, I'm reasonably sure I'll be getting that money back in due time. If not, I've had more than my money's worth...