Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision left Italy as baffled as ever about "Italy's Gandhi." Many Christian Democrats flatly consider him a Communist or, at best, a "useful idiot" for Communist causes. Leftist (but nonCommunist) Novelist Alberto Moravia insists: "Dolci protests, yes. But he is not a Communist." Dolci himself was more lofty. "Reality is very complex," he said. "To understand it, men have tried Christianity, liberalism, Gandhiism, socialism. There is some truth in all solutions. We are all mendicants of truth...
...because he had efficiently re-elected himself in a one-candidate plebiscite a fortnight before (TIME, Dec. 30), he announced an amnesty for the 3,000 oppositionists jailed during what had passed for an election campaign. Already free-and given 17 days to get out of the country-was Christian Socialist Rafael Caldera, who would have been the Catholic Party's candidate for President had not the dictator jailed him four months ago. Jovially, the President went on to a midnight dinner...
...less chance against Ohio State in the Rose Bowl than a small boy against the town tough. Playing in the spotty Pacific Coast Conference, Oregon was a two-time loser in its last three games. And Ohio State's brawny Buckeyes, despite an opening-game upset by Texas Christian, were undefeated in the mighty Big Ten. From San Diego to Portland, bookies hefted the sheer weight of the Ohio State ground attack and made the visitors the favorites by as much as 24 points...
Most of Conant's speech dealt with an analysis of Germany's political problems, past and present. Parliamentary government failed in the thirties, he said, because there were too many disputing parties. "A strong middle party," Conant observed, referring to Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union, "has arisen to make Germany's political power much different from the thirties...
...York organization which revealed the plan, is coordinating the trip for four other groups, which will each choose ten students for the program. Three of these groups are the Experiment in International Living, the Lisle Fellowship of Ann Arbor, Mich., and the Ecumenical Volunteer Service of the United Student Christian Council of New York. The fourth group has not been identified...