Word: chapels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chapel speech yesterday morning, Mr. Conant stated that America's chief hope for development as a free nation rests on the "number and influence" of its "tough-minded idealists." Recalling the glib complacency of those who, a year ago, oblivious of "the ominous consequences of the technical transformation of the art of war," foresaw the fulfillment of all the slick magazine ads picturing the happy, unruffled post-war world, he asked, "Should we have really expected a totally different post-war era?" But for Mr. Conant, realization of the hard cold facts of the atomic age is only half...
Starting the year with his traditional chapel talk at Memorial Church yesterday morning, President Conant emphasized the important role "tough-minded idealists" will play in the future destiny of free countries...
...wide-eyed feature article in "Time" magazine last week, Mr. Conant was by implication charged with retreating from his previous liberal position under pressure from the alumni and the Corporation. If that liberal position was once defined in his now-famous essay "Wanted: American Radicals," then Mr. Conant's chapel talk represents a reaffirmation of that position and a logical extension of it in terms of the specific issues of 1946. Mr. Conant has not retreated. He remains in the forefront of those who believe that the American promise can only be realized through faith in a dynamic liberalism...
...five U.S. airmen, past an honor guard at present arms. Five hearses were waiting. From a common burial ground in the mountain village of Koprivnik, the U.S. flyers shot down over Tito's Yugoslavia (TIME, Sept. 2) had come back to the U.S. They were taken to a chapel at Arlington Cemetery to await final funeral services later this month...
...bodies of five U.S. flyers whose unarmed plane was shot down by Yugoslav fighters in America's first major postwar crisis. The crisis had passed, but the international tensions of which it was a peak continued. The five bodies, all crises past, lay flag-draped in the chapel of a Roman airport...