Word: churches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Khrushchev rambled on. Poland's Gomulka nodded continually in pleased agreement. At midweek the dour Gomulka found even more to smile about. Gomulka, while beset by peasantry, church and intellectuals who want no part of Communism, is sniped at inside his party by a doctrinaire Stalinist group that deplores his every concession. Speaking in the gigantic Palace of Culture and Science, Russia's tasteless contribution to the war-ragged Warsaw skyline, Khrushchev abruptly pulled the rug out from under the diehard Stalinists who oppose Gomulka in the name of Marxist purity. "These party members," said Khrushchev, "sometimes depict...
...Calvinist communities. Among its grimmest is the former islet of Urk (pop. 5,500), a fishing village on the Zuider Zee. On Sundays, Urkers still separate their hens from the roosters, turn their paintings to the wall, read only one book (the Bible), take only one processional walk (to church). Doing anything else is sinful. For years life in Urk was pretty routine, and the town constable's daily report invariably read: "Nothing has happened." That was before Urk ceased to be an island...
...there, inside the crown, perches an ancient fortress-monastery, where the "Black Virgin" is enshrined. Legend has it that the dark wooden Madonna with the Child upright in her lap appeared as if by miracle within a cave in the mountain one day ten centuries ago. First a church, then a monastery was built near the peak in her honor. The shrine became a military strongpoint in the struggle between Catalonian Christians and Moors; the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V prayed before the Black Virgin many times, and Saint Ignatius Loyola found his vocation in her presence. Today...
...Britain, where more than 6,000 were killed, 300,000 injured in traffic accidents last year, a Church of England clergyman had a similar message for motorists. Vicar Vyvyan Watts-Jones of Darlaston's All Saints Church suggested a ten-second prayer to be pasted on dashboards and to be read before each trip: "Help me, O God, as I drive, to love my neighbor as myself, that I may do nothing to hurt or endanger any of your children. Give my eyes clear vision and skill to my hands and feet. Make me tranquil in mind and relaxed...
...unless she sticks to the no-bathing-suit ban, blonde Mary Jean Belitz, 18, last week gave up her Miss Omaha title. To Mary Jean's mother, the ban was bewildering: her pert (36-24-36) daughter had often appeared in the briefest drum-majorette costumes without causing church disfavor...