Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year-old Sardinian, a lean, fragile lawyer with a beaked nose and unruly white hair, had just been summoned by Italian President Gronchi to try to form a new government to replace the fallen Mario Scelba (TIME, July 4). Earnest Christian Democrat Segni, as Minister of Agriculture in several De Gasperi governments, drew up Italy's postwar land-reform program, but was less of a success at administering it.* He accepted Gronchi's commission early last week and from his paper-strewn apartment on the Via Sallustiana set about canvassing the three small center parties in hopes...
Segni's first problem was to persuade the bickering factions inside his own Christian Democrat Party to lay aside the differences that had brought down Scelba. After making some moves in this direction, he went to work on the Social Democrats (19 seats), the Republicans (5 seats), the Liberals (14 seats). For four days he scurried around a sweltering Rome, bargaining and counterbargaining. As courtesy required, he also paid a call on Stalin Prizewinner Pietro Nenni, who is panting to bring his fellow-traveling Socialists into a popular front. Segni rejected Nenni's offer; there are Christian Democrats...
Changing Point. "The Christian," said Dr. Brobeck, "thinks of miracles as something improbable, and so does the scientist. Both Christian and scientist also agree that it is impossible to explain miracles in terms of our present understanding. This doesn't mean miracles are impossible, and the Christian accepts them by faith . . . The attitude to science of the scientist who is not a Christian is rapidly approaching that of the scientist who is a Christian...
...Birth. "One of the essences of science is reproducibility. If I can't observe the miracles of 2,000 years ago and reproduce them, as a scientist, I can't believe them possible. But as a Christian, a miracle has happened to me which makes me accept these miracles. This miracle is the new birth, which every one of us who is a Christian has experienced. It is the application of God's power which brings about this change which is a miracle. It cannot be accomplished by any biological or psychological force. It creates within...
...After a three-day meeting in Columbus, Ohio, 30 leaders from the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church announced that the two denominations would join June 25, 1957. Name of the new church: the United Church of Christ. With a membership of more than 2,000,000 (1,283,000 Congregationalists, 761,000 E. & R.), the United Church will become the sixth largest Protestant denomination in the U.S. (after the Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans, Presbyterians and Episcopalians...