Word: belongings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Connor really did not belong in the Senatorial race in the first place. Springfield Mayor since 1957, he challenged Governor Foster Furcolo for the Democratic nomination last spring. After a tough bid by the young bachelor for endorsement, the state convention in Worcester backed the party man, Furcolo...
...Washington phone book, he remained plain "Alexis Leger." When a publisher requested poems for an anthology, he replied: "My name does not belong to letters." Disagreeing, the Swedish Academy last week awarded Saint-John Perse the 1960 Nobel Prize for Literature...
...John XXIII asserted the right and even duty of the church to advise the faithful on how to vote in elections. In practice, the Vatican seems to prefer that this right be exercised with great restraint by the hierarchy of the United States, to which the Puerto Rican bishops belong. But 90% Catholic Puerto Rico, though a part of the U.S., has a Spanish-speaking population and Spanish traditions, and is considered by Rome and by the island's bishops a part of Latin America, where prelates are more active and less discreet in politics...
Today the U.S. position has radically changed. In Washington last week President Dwight Eisenhower told the delegates of 15 new African nations: "We do not urge-indeed we do not desire-that you should belong to one camp or the other. You cannot afford to waste your money, which is needed to build the hospitals, the schools, the roads that your people need-you cannot afford to put that money into costly armaments...
...Christ." New York, Puerto Rican population has been a surprisingly fertile field for Protestant proselytizing. Partly because of a shortage of priests in their homeland, as in all Latin America, many Puerto Ricans have had little or no instruction in the Roman Catholic faith to which they traditionally belong. Protestant churches have been quick to capitalize on this; they have set more and more of their ministers to learning Spanish, stimulated the Catholics to all-out competition. There are currently 258 Spanish-speaking priests, and the Protestant missionaries are scattered, like the P.R.s themselves, from the Bronx to the Lower...