Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...daily feuds with such as Joe McCarthy grown pale and wan, Stassen, at 49, felt the need to fare forth in quest of new political ad ventures. Last week he fared forth. He urged that the G.O.P. dump Vice President Richard Nixon in favor of Massachusetts' Governor Christian A. Herter...
...Herman C. (for Christian) Nolen, 54, was elected president of McKesson & Robbins. Inc., world's largest wholesaler of drugs and liquors (Martin's V.V.O., Highland Queen), to succeed George Van Gorder, 60, who remains board chairman and chief executive. Nolen, son of a Muskegon, Mich, physician, was a Phi Beta Kappa at the University of Wisconsin (class of '22), worked his way up to production superintendent of Continental Motors Corp., then left business to take a Ph.D. in 1937 at Ohio State University. His doctoral thesis (Study of Chain Store Merchandising Methods and Selling) established...
...Seven Sleepers. Editor Attwater has happily spared the shears on some of the best stories in Christian tradition, though modern scholarship and/or common sense deny them corroboration. One such is the legend of St. Marina, whom her father disguised as a boy and took to the monastery with him when he became a monk. In due course Marina, too, became a monk, and was accused of getting a local innkeeper's daughter with child. Dismissed from the monastery to live as a beggar at its gates, Marina uttered not a word in self-defense. Only when she died...
This is not the first such report. In Hyderabad an investigating group complained of "a deep-rooted conspiracy to establish a Christian kingdom in India." In Indore a commission found missionary work "a smokescreen for the conversion of only poor and backward people," called for tougher regulation of missionaries' activities...
...India's 560,000 villages, untouchables are still forbidden to enter Brahmans' living areas, use their wells, or watch them eat. Temples are theoretically open to them, but they are still purged with milk -floor, walls, ceilings and idols-after the untouchables leave. Untouchables who have turned Christian often find their lot even worse than before. Shopkeepers may refuse to sell to them, barbers to shave them, and other untouchables sometimes drive them from their wells. This has accelerated the trend back to Hinduism. Hindu sources claim 10,000 reconversions for last year alone...