Word: christian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...coupling of spirituality and political sentimentality" dismayed the Christian Century's editors, who assailed "those who find their security in sanctifying the status quo." Raising a different objection, the Rev. Dudley Ward, a general secretary of the United Methodist Church, thinks Nixon should attend local churches and not confine his devotions to the White House. Says Ward: "European royalty had its private chapels, insulated from the wider community. The President represents the nation and the people, and cannot isolate himself from the important institutions in our national life...
SOME time in the night, the eleven men-eight Jews, two Moslems and a Christian-were secretly hanged in their prison in Baghdad. Then their bodies, clad in the red jail uniform of the doomed, were hauled by truck to downtown Liberation Square, where a set of wooden gallows had been hastily constructed to display them. Next morning Baghdadis awoke to martial music and the shrill cries of loudspeakers and radio, urging them to take the day off to view the executed "Israeli spies." For those who could not make the trip, the government ordered the medieval sight broadcast...
...fervently anti-Communist evangelist Billy James Hargis flew back from a crusade in Rhodesia to meet the invasion of his theological turf with a series of Christian-leadership meetings at which he roundly denounced the World Council as far left and ungodly. Despite a freezing rain, the Rev. Carl Mclntire of Collingswood, N.J., head of the extreme-right-wing International Council of Christian Churches, personally picketed Nikodim while he was delivering a sermon at Tulsa's First Christian Church. Another veteran anti-Red, the Rev. Richard Wurmbrand, a Rumanian Lutheran pastor who spent 18 years in Communist prisons, interrupted...
Harvard's sophomore-studded Nordic team, featuring Christian Ferner, Jim Platz and Rowley Hazzard, should produce enough points to keep the Crimson forces in contention for the team trophy. Ferner won the Norway Nordic championship last year, but has done little skiing since coming...
Just a Technician. At 46, Bachelor Cardin may appear to be an affected dandy, but he works in a frenzy, often forgetting to grab even a sandwich for lunch. He learned design in Paris at the House of Paquin, at Christian Berard and at Christian Dior. Equally important was his job as an accountant for the French Red Cross during World War II. "It was there," he recalls, "that I learned about balance sheets, paychecks and tax schedules. All of that seemed absurd, but it later helped me handle business affairs...