Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gubernatorial race against Democratic Incumbent Foster Furculo, 46, who will be another hard man to beat, the G.O.P. skipped over Christian Herter Jr. -son of the U.S. Under Secretary of State and onetime Massachusetts Governor-who was willing to tackle the job (TIME, Jan. 20), instead picked a longtime officeholder, State Attorney General George Fingold, 49. of Concord. Mass. Herter's consolation prize: candidacy for Attorney General Fingold's job. Republican consensus: 1) primary troubles in the gubernatorial runoff between Fingold and Charlie Gibbons. 2) lamb stew for Vincent J. Celeste in the senatorial elections. Reason: Massachusetts...
Lebanon, inhabited by members of ten Christian sects and three kinds of Moslems, is a living museum recalling virtually all the peoples that have ever dominated the Near East. When they won independence from France in 1946, the polyglot, polyracial Lebanese established a prosperous state whose stability depended on meticulous division of political offices among the major religious groups...
...best to restore these old accommodations or to find acceptable new ones, while men on all sides cried, "Either you are for me or against me." For those who would like to reduce politics to tidy simplicities, it might be tempting to equate Lebanon's Christians with the West and its Moslems with Nasser and to conclude that the West must throw its weight on the side of Christian dominance. But forcing nations to choose between two stark alternatives-whether the West v. Russia...
...Christian v. Moslem-raises the unpleasant possibility that, in the end, the choice will go the wrong way. Aggravating differences and widening breaches these days rarely helps the West...
...need of assistance which medical science in itself cannot supply," but in cases of so-called spiritual healing "there could never be established scientific evidence which would compel the conclusion that it was the spiritual content of the ministrations which had brought about the cure." In an appendix on "Christian Science and Spiritualism," the commission characterized Christian Science as "in clear conflict with the Christian Gospel," and added that "had the Church faithfully and intelligently carried out our Lord's commission to heal, Christian Science would have had no reason for existence...