Word: constitutionalizing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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But Kassem saved his real news for the middle of the Big Week. Addressing a graduation throng at Iraq's military college in his controlled staccato, he said: "I assure you that by next Jan. 6 we shall celebrate the formation of political parties," and went on-amid shouts...
Since ancient times amnesty has been used ceremonially ("Whom will ye that I release unto you? Barabbas or Jesus?") by authoritarian governments to placate their people. But modern Italy's need of amnesty springs from the basic injustices of its present laws and the overcrowding of its jails. The...
New York Timesman Herbert L. Matthews, veteran foreign correspondent and champion of causes, scored an enviable news beat in 1957, when he made his way into the mountain fastness of Cuba's Oriente province, became the first U.S. newsman to interview Rebel Leader Fidel Castro. Matthews reported not only...
At Oberlin College in Ohio, a new denomination of U.S. Protestantism was being born. The United Church of Christ began to come into being two years ago in Cleveland (TIME, July 1, 1957), when the General Council of the Congregational Christian Churches (membership: 1,401,565) agreed to merge with...
"Praise God . . ." So complex was the task that the Commission to Prepare a Constitution had not managed to circulate its draft until a few weeks before the Oberlin meeting; ministers had had little opportunity to discuss it with their church members, and many had not received copies at all. At...