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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Minister and Field Marshal Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, only other visible candidate. This week, with typical political canniness, Quadros planned to board a freighter to Japan (54 days around the Cape of Good Hope) on a trip that will keep him away for three months-enough to avoid excessive pre-election exposure, enough to guarantee him a triumphal welcome when he returns...
...scarcely known outside the trade, to have attracted so much high-powered devotion? Wiry, long-faced Manie (pronounced Manny) was a longtime recording executive for Columbia Records, later a vice president of both NBC and RCA, and he died last year of leukemia at 56. Says RCA Board Chairman David Sarnoff: "He was the most selfless man I ever knew." Frank Sinatra credits him with "a closetful of right arms." Adds Variety Editor Abel Green in a bathetic burst: "His was the unashamed opening of the pores of human kindness...
...rain of protest has drummed against the National Council of Churches ever since its Fifth World Order Study Conference in Cleveland advocated recognition of Red China and admission to the U.N. (TIME, Dec. 1) In Hartford, Conn, last week, before a meeting of the policymaking General Board, National Council President Dr. Edwin T. (for Theodore) Dahlberg stiffly rose to answer the critics. Actually he sidestepped them by defending the church's right to take a stand on international issues, rather than specifically commenting on the China stand. Said he: "The church must in a sense function as the conscience...
...General Board's 150 delegates were not ready to apply the "reconciling realities" to Red China in a political sense. They approved a stern official denial that the council had ever been, or intended to be, "soft toward Communism," voted unanimously to "receive" the Cleveland meeting's Red China recommendation. This means neither approval nor disapproval, but simply further study...
...School Board Lawyer Bertram Daiker replied that no child is forced to say the prayer. A child who does not believe in God, or whose parents object to the wording of the prayer, may remain silent...