Word: closers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...issues were clearly drawn in last week's election for 127 seats in the upper house of the Japanese Diet. Premier Nobusuke Kishi (who some U.S. worrywarts once thought would prove anti-American) campaigned by urging closer ties with the U.S. The rival Socialists, looking for somewhere else to go, demanded abrogation of the U.S.-Japanese Security Pact and firm alliance with Red China and the Soviet Union. When the votes were in, Premier Kishi had won a clear victory, capturing 71 of the contested seats to 38 for the Socialists. The Socialists lost nearly a million votes...
...should not stop at potentially dangerous ideas," stated Rabbi Maurice L. Zigmond, Director of Harvard Hillel. "We must study all the facts, for learning is basic, and learning gives the possibility of choice." Is it too optimistic to believe that such open inquiry will lead the Jew closer to Judaism? Zigmond says that he is not worried about Jews merely flirting with commitment "because there will be commitment at some time or another...
...attributed woman's special interest in religion to her centrality to the home and its security, not to greater emotionalism. Similarly, the Rev. Richard E. Mumma of the First Congregational Church noted that a woman has a deepened perception of religious things "out of her care for children and closer and more personal association with the family...
Filibusters and rebellions roil the Caribbean ; neighboring British colonies move toward independence; nationalism flourishes. Amidst it all, the French West Indies-Martinique, Guadeloupe and their islet dependencies-glide ever closer to full membership in Charles de Gaulle's French Community...
...company can accept or reject bids to buy. But the broad majority of European capitalists heartily hold out hands in welcome to the U.S. investor. "The more investment the better," says a top Zurich financier. "We in the West are politically and economically in the same boat. The closer we are connected, the stronger we shall...