The Congress: Plain & Pertinent

"O God, our Father, let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen . . . Give us the courage . . . to stand for something, lest we fall for anything . . . Amen."

Rolling his rs, the Rev. Peter Marshall, Scottish-born chaplain of the U.S. Senate, thus prayed one day last winter over the bowed heads of his legislative flock. That day the Senate was hemming & hawing over the European Recovery Program; husky, sandy-haired Dr. Marshall...

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