Word: 95th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stockton, Calif.'s College of the Pacific, where he coached for some years after the University of Chicago retired him because of old age in 1933, college football's famed Amos Alonzo Stagg attended a combined celebration of his own 95th birthday (Aug. 16), his wife's 81st birthday (Aug. 7), and their 63rd wedding anniversary next month...
...Scotland, the 95th British Open Golf championship was played on the rugged Old Course at St. Andrews. The winner for the second year in a row: Australia's sure-stroking, young (25) Professional Peter Thomson, whose total of 281 shaved two strokes off the Old Course Open mark he set last year...
Shirey, pastor of a Cullendale. Ark. church, was asking the 95th General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) for a quick vote on the most disputed issue facing its six-day convention: a request that the assembly "reconsider and rescind" its 1954 pronouncement that "segregation is un-Christian." Pastor Shirey and six others had signed a minority report charging that the assembly erred in asking its 3,776 local churches to accept Negroes...
Birth control was unanimously approved last week by the 95th annual convention of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (500,000 members), meeting in Los Angeles. Said the resolution: "An unrestrained production of children without realistic regard to God-given responsibilities involved in rearing children . . . may be as sinful and as selfish ... as is the complete avoidance of parenthood . . . The power to reproduce is His blessing, not a penalty, upon the sexual relationship in marriage...
...speech, "a very ordinary woman who was given a very great opportunity which I se zed.'' And from Colony President Carl Carmer there was further good news. The proceeds of a fund-raising campaign now under way will be turned over to Mrs. MacDowell on her 95th birthday next November. The hope, he said, is to raise "a thousand dollars for each year of Mrs. MacDowell's life and a few extra thousand for her to grow...