Word: arly
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Before a House Judiciary subcommittee holding hearings on the civil rights bill appeared the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake, chief executive officer of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Blake had made civil rights news several weeks earlier when he was ar rested in Maryland for participating in an anti-discrimination demonstration (TIME, July 12). Said Witness Blake to the committee, reading a joint statement endorsed by more than two dozen leading Protestant, Catholic and Jewish organizations: "Racism is blasphemy against...
...Bishops Agree. Will attacks by Roman conservatives block this ecumenical encounter? The Biblical scholars ar dently hope not; but the battle is not over. On their side, the scholars point to the willingness of many dogmatic and moral theologians to accept their findings, the new understanding of Biblical research among the hierarchy. At the Vatican Council, a majority of bishops voted against a schema on the sources of revelation, prepared by Holy Office theologians, that would have rigorously distinguished between Scripture and tradition; Biblical scholars and most "liberal" theologians see them as a single source of dogma. In December...
...Quiet. The President might have done better to say nothing at all. By issuing even a mild pronouncement, he needlessly conveyed an impression that he continued to consider himself the ar biter of the industry's price decisions. And tactically, the statement was a blunder: by virtually inviting steel companies to go ahead with "selected price adjustments," he made it virtually impossible to fight later on if he decided that the increases were excessive after...
...Morris Milgram, a product of New York's Lower East Side and an ar dent tilter at the windmills of social injustice, announced plans for a 51-home development in Deerfield. Milgram is in the business of building houses-and his passion is building them for both Negroes and whites...
Last year, exiled Juan José Arévalo, 58, the Yankee hater (The Shark and the Sardines) who made friends with the Communists during his 1945-51 term as President, announced that he was returning to run for President again. Ydigoras let it be known that he would hale Arévalo into court if he set foot in Guatemala. Then he had a better idea: Why not let Arévalo return and beat him at an election? Ydigoras could do this by his control of the election machinery. Ydigoras' own candidate was Roberto Alejos, a planter...