Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arriving in Manhattan for a showing of his spring creations. Paris Dressmaker Christian Dior let slip a few shapes of things to come. What next year's chic woman will look like, according to the edict of the Dioracle: her skirt will be "just a bit longer," her dress hues often favoring "toast to caramel" shades, her hat smaller, in order to show more of her face...
...Endorsed birth control for the first time in the church's history. Parents have a duty to plan their children "in accordance with their ability to provide for their children and carefully nurture them in the fullness of Christian faith and life...
...Urged members to set an example of interracial brotherhood in their daily lives, but declined, by a vote of 340 to 159, to endorse a proposal hailing the Supreme Court's ban on segregation in the public schools as being "in harmony with Christian convictions," because the church had no right to "differ with or support" the court, which acts, they maintained, purely on legal principles. By this decision, which President Franklin Clark Fry formally opposed, the group becomes the first major U.S. religious body so far to withhold its blessing from the court's ruling...
...Southwest's two top teams met last week when Texas A. & M.'s rugged squad took on Texas Christian's poised veterans. T.C.U. was a solid favorite to win. For most of the game, played in a driving rain, T.C.U. made the oddsmakers look good. The Aggies were bottled deep in their own territory by fumbles, threw back repeated T.C.U. goal-line assaults, finally yielded a touchdown on a pass play in the third quarter. But then A. & M.'s little (150 Ibs.) Halfback Don Watson, who beat T.C.U. last year with...
...awkward is ignored, it will go away. Gerald Middleton, handsome, sixtyish and a kind of historian emeritus among English medievalists, has long repressed a suspicion that the 1912 discovery of the Melpham Tomb was a grandiose hoax on a par with Piltdown Man. The remains of a 7th century Christian bishop named Eorpwald had been found in the tomb. But in the coffin rested a shockingly priapic fertility idol. Ever since, disconcerted historians had been trying to adjust their theories to this evidence that the good bishop had relapsed into paganism. But Middleton knows something his fellow medievalists...