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...just the way it is - the thereness of it. The gift of arthritis. The gift of heart attack. The gift of the isness of life." The speaker was a lecturer at the Christian Faith and Life Community, a training center for undergraduate students of the University of Texas at Austin. His woebegone view of things, he warned, should not lead to despair but to Christian salvation. The man willing to accept "what is ugly and cruel and guilty as well as the contrary" is receiving Christ's message, and discovers that "this...
...chaplaincy in 1950 to take graduate divinity studies at St. Andrews University in Scotland, "the Valhalla of all Presbyterians." In Europe he encountered a number of religious training centers for student laymen, decided he had found the way for the church to reach undergraduates back home. He returned to Austin, rounded up a few thousand dollars from local businessmen, and with the cooperation of university officials, set up the "Austin Experiment" outside the campus gates. The community's present budget approaches $200,000 a year, most of it coming from gifts and donations. Said a Texas oilman who gave...
Testing the Test. Led by Psychologist Wayne H. Holtzman, the Austin researchers have made two major reaches beyond Rorschach by 1) increasing the number of cards in a test set to 45, and 2) relying on only one response to each card. After thousands of trial runs, they claim to be able to classify a subject's responses more objectively than Rorschach. Though the tester still has to grade the responses for emotional disturbance or disordered thinking, years of testing the test have convinced the Holtzman psychologists that they now know how to reduce interference from the tester...
...Service" Approach. The chieftains of the old Republican machine regard the Alliance with a mixture of anxiety and contempt. "They've done nothing but make noise." jeers Wilbur Hamilton, the city Republican chairman. Says William Austin ("Aus") Meehan. who last year inherited his father's role as boss of the old organization: "I don't think you can run a political organization with a Mimeograph machine and advertising." As Meehan and Hamilton see it. the art of politics is based on what they call "service"'-doing favors for people so as to build up a fund...
...Lead. With the campaign in its closing weeks, the man to catch is still Governor Price Daniel, 51, an unimposing figure in a country judge's black suit and a crushed Stetson, who wants to become the first Texan to win four two-year terms in Austin. A former U.S. Senator, Baptist Daniel is a just-plain-folks politician who occasionally startles visitors to his office by dropping to his knees in prayer; he won by more than 1,000,000 votes in 1960 although he had bolted the party in 1952 to back Dwight Eisenhower...