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...make sure that the drastic fundwithholding idea will be only a last resort -the Virginia House of Delegates and Senate passed three supplementary bills to keep segregation as safe as possible: ¶The "pupil placement" bill sets up a special board, appointed by the governor, to classify and assign all public-school pupils. If a parent becomes dissatisfied with the board's decision, he will have to appeal to the governor, and, if still dissatisfied, start legal proceedings that would probably take at least two years to get to the U.S. Supreme Court. But what if the bill were...
...briefly he takes them through the Old Testament background, 1st century Judaism, the Greek influences on the early church. But in the last section of the book, dealing directly with primitive Christianity, demythologization is seen at work. Again and again Bultmann attributes to Gnostic influences what orthodox interpreters assign to essential Christian teaching. The problem of the future and the end of the world, which has come in for so much theological attention of late, seems to Bultmann to be swallowed up in the Christian present...
...vain at tempt at rescue, she was rewarded with a dressing-down that probed deep into the difference between religious vocation and mere doing good. "Not only did you leave the convent without permission," said Mother Mathilde, "but . . . you failed also in charity . . . I might have wished . . . to assign Sister Aurelie to that emergency, or another of those devoted nuns serving under you, who have not been outside the grounds for weeks. You, Sister Luke, saw risk and excitement arid preempted this for yourself. You never thought how a sister might later enjoy clipping a little item from the newspaper...
...administration said it was not bothering to assign one set to Stevenson supporters and another to Harriman backers, because "it hoped that a feeling of Party harmony will prevail among students gathered around the sets." The administration also appealed to Republicans not to throw things at the screen...
...Other activities of the pro-segregationists last week: ¶ In a special session of the Florida legislature, the state house of representatives passed four bills to circumvent a state supreme court ruling that the Florida school segregation laws are invalid. The bills would enable county boards of education to assign pupils and teachers to schools on the basis of intelligence, ability, and "cultural background.'' One representative objected that "some Negro pupils have higher IQs than some white pupils." Snapped a backer of the bill: "But who is going to give the tests?" ¶ The North Carolina legislature convened...