Word: albion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...member of the Albion College Choir, which sang for the Methodist General Conference on April 29, I had the privilege of hearing Bishop Kennedy speak for a few minutes in favor of the new Methodist hymnal. His was a speech that sparked the entire morning's proceedings; he is an intelligent, progressive...
...Albion College...
Many of these programs were dreamed up by Don Benedict, a burly, energetic United Church of Christ minister who has been impresario of the society's operations since 1960. A graduate of Albion College in Michigan and Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Benedict served two penitentiary terms during World War II for failing to register for the draft. Eventually he found his ardent pacificism giving way to a conviction that the Allied cause was just, and he ended up the war as an Army sergeant on Iwo Jima. After the war, Benedict was one of the founders...
...Europeans. Swallowing their pride and reversing centuries-old tradition, the British decided in mid-1961 to cross the Channel and make common cause with the Continent. Then last week, just as they were within sight of their goal, Charles de Gaulle of France contemptuously closed the door on perfidious Albion...
...with Italy? As a result, Macmillan has deepened France's ancient mistrust of perfidious Albion, while the Kennedy Administration's consultations with Whitehall have become ever more perfunctory on such life-or-death issues as Berlin and Cuba. The Administration's abrupt announcement that it planned to scuttle Skybolt left Britons shocked and disillusioned by what seemed to be a brutal rejection of their nation's claim to equal partnership with the U.S. The U.S., rued the Tory Spectator, kicked Britain "down the nuclear league to end up tying with, perhaps, Italy...