Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When the 16th U.N. General Assembly convenes this autumn, an immediate problem will be one that has popped up every year since 1950: whether to admit Red China to membership or, indeed, whether to even debate the question. The U.S. has successfully led opposition to either move -but support has been shifting away from the U.S. position in recent years. Last week there were indications that the U.S. might shift in strategy, if not in sentiment...
They had already studied for a year; this week they said goodbye to their families and disappeared behind the walls of San Francisco University's Phelan Hall atop one of the city's hills, to spend the next three weeks going through the famed Spiritual Exercises of 16th century St. Ignatius Loyola, founder of the Jesuit Order. Beginning July 1, they will be ready to teach the theology of the Roman Catholic Church to ordinary men and women-Catholic and non-Catholic-in any parish that hires them. And hire is no figure of speech; each of them...
...Adnan Menderes to stand trial, expectation was that their cases would be wrapped up expeditiously, the junta's revolt against the Menderes government vindicated neatly, and Menderes & Co. put out of the way conveniently. But by last week, the i sth trial on Yassiada Island ended inconclusively, the 16th, 17th, 18th and 19th trials were under way, the 1,000th witness took the stand to give testimony, and the Turks were frankly tired of the whole thing...
...Cabinet, Belgium's 16th since 1945, Socialist Spaak became Vice Premier. He also took over the post of Foreign Minister, incidentally absorbing the Department of Congolese Affairs, which the march of history had now declared superfluous...
...long-lived tradition of anticlericalism in southern France, which recruited the Huguenots in the 16th century and fueled Communism in the 20th, is finding a new outlet in a spreading bush fire of enthusiasm for the vanished sect whose 750-year-old lost cause against the church gave anticlericalism its biggest beachhead in France. Some 30 books have been published during the last 15 years about their beliefs and practices and their slaughterous persecution-most of them highly favorable to the heretics and critical of the church. Several plays have been written about them, and literary reviews have published long...