Word: christian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...NATO. Between and after pageants, the President held two solid talks with De Gaulle, one for 70 minutes alone with interpreters, one for almost an hour with Secretary of State Christian Herter and French Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville. On France's labyrinthine problem in Algeria, a problem that De Gaulle kept coming back to, the President was pleased and impressed by De Gaulle's new initiative there toward settlement (see FOREIGN NEWS). On NATO, the President restrained De Gaulle's widely bruited hopes for a sort of NATO three-power directorate by promising principally...
...Said the Christian Century: "Roman Catholic spokesmen are generally critical of President Eisenhower for inviting Premier Khrushchev to this country. As usual, a cardinal or an archbishop spoke first and then others fell into line, including the obedient Catholic press . . . However, the wisest Catholic leaders must know that criticism can be overdone...
...Bonn, Ike's 23-hour stay was a political windfall for canny old Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and his Christian Democratic Party. German Socialists dourly noted the President's airport remark that "in my country the name Adenauer has come to symbolize the determination of the German people to remain strong and free," complained that it was interference in German politics. The pollsters predicted that Adenauer's electoral strength would soar; it was bitter medicine for der Alte's enemies, who predicted his political downfall three months ago during the tussle with Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard...
...clipped my wings ... it seemed logical to suppose that an inherent yen to fly defied the Lord's will, but He said 'no!' " As his letter was on its way home, another from his father crossed its path with a clipping about an organization called the Christian Airmen's Missionary Fellowship. Now renamed the Missionary Aviation Fellowship, the organization used light planes to airlift missionaries and supplies in inaccessible parts of the world. Nate Saint had found the way to use his two loves-the Gospel...
...could well be talking about himself. He remembers little about his early childhood except that his real name is Jonathan Aivaz (pronounced Avis), that he was born in Iran in 1921, first son of a millionaire Assyrian camel-caravan operator, and that his family fled to France during anti-Christian riots in the early 1920s. By 1928, the Aivaz family was in New Britain, Conn., flat broke. There were seven youngsters to feed by then, so Jonathan never finished high school. He worked his way across the country as a movie pressagent, wound up with a small "chitchat and music...