Word: convert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening the President appeared at a Waldorf-Astoria dinner of the Weizmann Institute, which has created 46 new fellowships in memory of John Kennedy-one for each year of his age. He told the diners that the U.S. has offered to cooperate with Israel in finding a way to convert salt water to fresh water with atomic energy. But Johnson's mind was more on the water problems of Guantanamo Bay, and Aide Jack Valenti repeatedly rushed to the dais with the latest intelligence reports...
...expected, Ghana voted overwhelmingly to convert to a one-party "socialist" state. Also as expected, the final returns were no sooner in last week than Dictator Kwame Nkrumah embarked on a fresh purge of his opposition and a stepped-up campaign against...
...other rabbis believe that intermarriage brings profits as well as losses. One gain is the small but steady national increase in converts to Judaism. "I don't know of a rabbi who isn't constantly busy tutoring non-Jews who want to convert to Judaism," says Dr. Max Vorspan of California's University of Judaism. Another silver-lining view is that intermarriage is an inevitable by-product of a worthy accomplishment, the general acceptance of Judaism in U.S. life. "We want tolerance, understanding and intergroup amity," says Rabbi Joseph Narot of Miami's Temple Israel...
...goal of the Harvard volunteers. Even though they worked primarily with children, the volunteers were interested in the whole tribe. Judy Norman '65, the present director of the project, stresses that the volunteers did not go to the reservations as anthropologists to study the Indians or as missionaries to convert them...
Seymour said the Council had planned to convert Lehman Hall into an activities center, after the Comptroller's office move to the new Holyoke Center, but said that Lehman had been assigned to other purposes...