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...Church will also appeal, however, on the grounds that the state law prohibiting religious or educational construction can be interpreted to mean that the community also cannot make such groups conform to building regulations in an area...
...Twining's other flank was the Air Force's General Tommy White: "I completely agree with the President's concept that separate ground, sea and air warfare are gone forever and that peacetime preparation and organization must conform to this fact. It is essential that our combat forces be organized into truly unified commands and that our strategic and tactical planning be completely unified." But what of the "dangers" in the legislation? asked committee members...
...film in the best boy-meets-girl, boy-overcomes-almost-insuperable-obstacles, boy-gets-girl tradition, it is certainly enjoyable. The necessity of making a movie conform to American public morality--which ruined Graham Greene's The Quiet American when translating it onto film--does not have the same effect on The Brothers. It is a new story, but not a bad one. All the parts of this new tale are acted better than competently--especially by Cobb and Miss Schell, and although the title would perhaps be more accurate as True Love Triumphs in Old Russia, the movie should...
...Heaven knows, the parish itself soon enough pats even the most independent preacher down into comfortable conformities. But that gentling will be one thing for the man who can remember a time when in his freedom he questioned and challenged and criticized-a different thing from the gentling of a man who from the beginning, driven by family practicalities, has been seeking the pattern that he might conform...
...that unattractive." Largely because of their uncertainty about father and mother. 15 of the 20 had homosexual relations. None of the girls had any capacity for solid friendships, sought out friends who were unstable because of similar emotional conflicts. Yet they desperately wanted to conform in some outward respects: one joined the D.A.R. and the United Daughters of the Confederacy...