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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week two Soviet ships, Tobolsk and Krilyon, steamed into Japan's Niigata harbor to pick up the first load of 975 repatriates, who had marched to the embarkation center waving red flags and singing The Song of Kim II Sung. The minds of most of their passengers had long been prepared by Soren, the Communist-financed society that controls 90% of Korean schools in Japan. The Koreans had had an undeniably miserable time in Japan. After years of work, most had less than 15,000 yen ($42) to their names. In an old U.S. Air Force barracks, they...
...Anglican Slater, 63, a graduate of Cambridge University, who has spent 17 years in the Far East and is canon of Christ Church Cathedral in Montreal, the center is an old dream come true. In his book on the Burma Road, Guns Through Arcady (1941), Dr. Slater wrote hopefully of ". . . men who will join hands not because they hold their own faiths lightly, but because they hold them deeply, each loyal to his own tradition but anxious to understand others." The Harvard center will be housed in a two-story building with apartments for eleven married students and visiting scholars...
Harvard University announced an important new addition to its educational plant last week. Work will begin immediately on a Center for the Study of World Religions, where believers from all over the world may live, talk and seek to understand each other's faiths. Funds for the center were supplied by an estate that insists on anonymity-the same donor who last year endowed Harvard's first professorship in world religions. And the man who occupies that chair-Canada's topflight Theologian Robert Slater-will head the new center...
Like other Sinclair novels, Theirs Be the Guilt has its Lanny Budd, i.e., a character who, when history's big scenes are played, is to be found stage center, or at least behind the arras with tape recorder. Here, this character is Allan Montague, a boy growing up on a slightly mythical Southern plantation, with a swarm of smiling Negroes in the great house-and another swarm of Negroes out in the cotton fields, where it is hard to see if they are smiling or not. Probably not. But for Allan and his dashing cousins, 'Dolph and Ralph...
...Woman! (CBS, 4-5 p.m.).* "You Can't Raise Children by the Book" attempts to make that point through a guided tour of the Yale Child Study Center...