Word: conquest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Christians have always been puzzled by the Moslem conquest, which took Islam to the Pyrenees and beyond them into France. The Cross had emerged triumphant from the blood bath of Roman persecution. Why had it fallen before the Prophet's sword? In The Call of the Minaret (Oxford University Press; $6.25), published last fortnight, Anglican priest and Moslem scholar Kenneth Cragg blames not Moslem power but Christian failure for the rise of Islam. "It was a failure in love, in purity, and in fervor, a failure of the spirit," he argues. "Islam developed in an environment of imperfect Christianity...
...Today's "peace of mutual terror" based on nuclear weapons, and the unquenchable internal weaknesses within the Soviet orbit have changed the Soviet aim from world military conquest to desperate preservation of internal stability...
...glory of the woman who did not discover Camembert cheese. "Marie Harel was a benefactor of humanity!" said Mayor Augustin Gavin, who had helped to dedicate the first statue. "I dare hope that a United States of the World will be formed rapidly and peacefully, modeled after the conquest of the world by Camembert." Said Will Foster, who paid for lunch for about 40 fellow celebrators: "This is the happiest day of my life." Said a local farmer: "Humph! I don't think Marie Harel ever existed...
...Five Sizes. At first, they could offer few cures and, in most cases, little more than nursing-home care. But Dr. Brown lived to see his hospital help in the conquest of many of the great child-killers of its early days. This week, as Massachusetts' Governor Christian Herter and Harvard's President Nathan Pusey dedicated a new $5,000,000 building on Boston's Blackfan Street, Brown's hospital had grown into the Children's Medical Center, first of its kind in the world. The center now totals eight buildings, none architecturally impressive...
From the time of Alexander the Great, the road to Indian conquest has led down from the north through the Khyber Pass. To keep the encroaching Russians away from this gateway to their empire, the British built up the buffer state of Afghanistan across the Khyber's mountainous northern approaches. Last week, only nine years after the British turned over the Khyber's defenses to the new and troubled state of Pakistan, the long-feared penetration of Russian military influence into Afghanistan was announced as a fact. In Kabul, Afghanistan's Strongman Mohammed Daoud Khan, who last...