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True, the curtain-raising speech by Minister of Power Fred Lee, introducing the motion, was a trifle dull, and the Opposition, led by Iain Macleod, did little more than affirm its determination to denationalize steel if and when it gets into office. But ample suspense was provided by two of Labor's own backbenchers, Right-Wingers Woodrow Wyatt and Desmond Donnelly, who had announced ahead of time that they disagreed with Wilson's plans to nationalize steel, might very well vote against his government and thus endanger his hair-thin majority...
What Did He Say? Fellowship members range from Pentecostals to Greek Orthodox, although all must affirm their belief in the authority of the Bible, the divinity of Christ, and the historical fact of Resurrection. What the fellowship seeks to do, explains its new U.S. general director, University of Wisconsin Geographer John Alexander, is to answer five basic questions: "What did Jesus say? Why did he say it? What did he do? Why did he do it? And, finally, what is the significance of the answers to these questions to me as an individual?" In pursuit of the answers, Inter-Varsity...
...another letter to Ambassador Taylor, the Buddhists hinted that unless the U.S. withdraws its support from Huong-as it did last year from President Ngo Dinh Diem-Buddhist ire may be turned against Americans. Pointedly the Buddhists warned Taylor: "We affirm that you are responsible, before both the American and Vietnamese peoples, for the existence of the Huong government." Whereupon Chau, Quang and the Buddhists' nominal religious head, Thich Tinh Khiet, announced a 48-hour weekend hunger strike, urging Buddhists to join them in round-the-clock prayer sessions. From Darlac province came an offer of candidates for flaming...
...master of Eliot House urged the Faculty to affirm its commitment to compulsory gen ad, even if it simultaneously rejected the Doty Report. Under such circumstances, he reasoned, a revised version of the present Gen Ed Committee could devise a new program in consultation with the Committee on Educational Policy...
...brilliant interpreter of great events from the British army's last great cavalry charge at Omdurman in 1898 to the final defeat of the Axis powers in 1945. And for all his political pragmatism, Churchill never hesitated to point to the underlying moral of events or to affirm that, by and large, the Allied cause was that of civilization itself. As he said in the hour of victory: "We gave thanks to God for the noblest of all His blessings, the sense that we had done our duty." The Voice. It seems a distant victory now, with yesterday...