Word: civilize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Other U.S. officers on the famed secret submarine trip: Colonel (later Brigadier General) Archelaus L. Hamblen, shipping and supply expert; Captain (now Admiral) Jerauld Wright, Navy liaison man on Torch, now commander of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet; Colonel Julius C. Holmes, head of Torch's Civil Affairs branch, now the Secretary of State's special assistant for NATO. General Clark, retired, is president of The Citadel...
...seen Athens. A staff officer of the 2nd (Athens) Division when the Germans and Italians overran Greece in 1941, he had organized, after the fall of Greece, a right-wing group known simply as "X." Alongside the British, it fought first the Nazis, then the Communists in the Greek civil war of 1947-49. He had run for Parliament as an extreme right-wing candidate and lost. Then he began to think of doing something about the British rule on Cyprus, the island where he was born. For months he ate nothing but fruit, trained himself for what...
They may marry among themselves in civil ceremonies. A Catholic who wants to marry a Protestant must first get permission for a civil ceremony, and he can get this permission only by furnishing proof that he is no longer a practicing Catholic. The proof consists of a signed declaration submitted to a justice of the peace, but the local bishop can simply refuse to accept the declaration as valid, and the wedding is off. There have been some cases of priests who left the church and tried to marry Protestants (one notable example: the late, reactionary Cardinal Segura...
Despite repeated appeals to Franco, Protestants in Spain operate solely on the document issued by Franco's generals after the civil war, granting permission to reopen established Protestant churches. This means that there is no legal authorization for the establishment of a new church, or even for an established church to move. A Baptist church in Barcelona was closed down last year when its congregation moved without permission from a building that was about to collapse. And in 1954, Madrid's Second Baptist Church was closed because a new Catholic charity foundation across the street complained that...
...Society has heard a Nieman fellow, a Southern radio broadcaster, the Graduate Secretary of PBH, and folksinger Pete Seeger in the past year. But, according to president Michael Lurie '60 "students are rather apathetic about civil rights, and it's almost impossible to get a drive going...