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...Time. Those who see the Christian belief in the end of the world as implying an attitude of indifference to earthly values are dead wrong, according to Cullmann. But though Christianity does not deny the world, it does not affirm it. either. The complex attitude that places the Christian between the two is what Cullmann calls "chronological dualism." This is "the conviction that, on the one hand . . . Christ the end is already fulfilled, and that nonetheless the consummation is still in the future, since the framework of the present world still endures...
...Club recently declined a Navy offer of two obsolete T-28 training planes because of the excessive operating costs involved, the CRIMSON learned. Williams refused to affirm or deny the offer...
Gloomy Welcome. Then Mendes gave some advice to Eastern Europe. "At the risk of surprising our colleagues representing [the satellites]," he said, "I affirm that, for my part, I would be quite happy to see the creation of an Eastern European defense association, as long as it adopts the modalities provided for by the West for the publication, limitation and control of armaments." Eventually, suggested Mendes, arrangements between this Communist club and the new Western European Union might lead to a "system of collective security applicable to the whole of Europe...
...argument that the United States must attack the Soviet homeland at the slightest provocation. But his reasoning is little short of "preventive war" enthusiasm and would threaten the U.S. with a total conflict involving no real winners. It is the very danger of hydrogen warfare that prompted Eisenhower to affirm that outside of co-existence "there is no alternative to peace." The fallacy of Knowland's charge that co-existence will mean ultimate Soviet victory is best shown by returning to Churchill's original definition of the policy...
Thomas D. Bolles, Director of Athletics, declined to either affirm or deny the report. His only comment was that "We do not announce our schedules more than a year in advance...