Word: belief
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time to Learn." Symington shares his wife's belief in personal diplomacy, still talks about the time he invited an Asian student for dinner. "He couldn't believe it," the new protocol chief related. "He said he'd been in this country three years and had never been invited to an American home." From such ex periences came a lesson later conveyed in a song the Symingtons composed by the swimming pool of their comfortable white house in Georgetown. "It takes time to know your neighbor on the other side," runs one verse. "Time to learn...
...Communist junks off the South China coast, some probably filched by Chinese Nationalist spies, cover most of 1961-a year when Red China was nursing bruised shins from the disastrous "Great Leap Forward." They reflect nagging discontent in army and peasant ranks, as well as the age-old Chinese belief in the efficacy of numerals as a cure-all for despair. Excerpts...
...Jones University [March 18] boycotted the recent Billy Graham Greenville Crusade because it was an integrated meeting. To set the record straight: this university cannot support Billy Graham, a man for whom we have warm personal regard, because he violates the Biblical principle forbidding the unequal union of belief with unbelief (II Corinthians 6:14, 15; Galatians 1:8, 9; II John 9-11; etc.). BOB JONES...
...this was Greek to Mrs. Surowitz, but she readily agreed to act as plaintiff in a shareholder's suit alleging fraud. Since Rule 23 (b) of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requires that "the complaint shall be verified by oath," she swore to her belief in the truth of its contents before a notary public. Skeptical, Hilton's lawyers forced Mrs. Surowitz to take the stand in a Chicago federal district court to prove her understanding of all the details in her 60-page complaint. Naturally, she flunked the quiz. Calling it "a sham," the judge dismissed...
...lonely stand dismayed even some senior officials of the French government, for it isolated France from its Common Market partners and reneged on a year-old French proposal for a gold-based collective reserve unit, dubbed Cru. Washington felt that De Gaulle's maneuver was dictated by the belief-or even the hope-that the dollar drain caused by the Viet Nam war, now between $400 million and $500 million a year, will make it impossible for the U.S. to stanch its payments deficit this year...