Word: councill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...West Side poultry markets, at age 50 is an official of the U.S.'s biggest and most powerful labor union: James Riddle Hoffa's Teamster Brotherhood (TIME, Aug. 31). in which he is president of Teamster Local 777 (taxi drivers) and boss of the Teamster joint council of Chicago. He has made crime pay exceedingly well. The Chicago Crime Commission estimated his rake-in from all sources-union salaries, business profits, kickbacks, extortion payoffs-at $70,000 a month...
...Choice. A more able-or less likely -spokesman for their interests the primitive, unruly Masai could hardly have found. Chosen from 200 candidates in a three-month search by the tribe's council of elders, Mbarnoti is a big (6 ft., 180 Ibs.), 28-year-old schoolteacher who speaks excellent English and whose only ambition-until the elders tapped him last September-was to go to England to study. The son of a slave freed by French Roman Catholic missionaries, Edward herded cattle until he was nine, then, as his father's "love son" (or favorite), was sent...
What makes the council so anxious for conversation is concern that Eastern Orthodoxy may yet swing toward Rome. Protestants worry that Pope John XXIII intended to invite Orthodox, but not Protestant, delegates to his Ecumenical Council in 1961 (TIME, Feb. 9). Last week the Catholics took pains to allay the fears-at least for the present. At an informal conference. Pere Christophe Jean Dumont, head of a five-man Catholic contingent, explained that the Pope's first announcement had been misinterpreted; none but Roman Catholic bishops were ever to have been invited. Later, though, Pere Dumont tossed...
Blossoming Relations. Even so. Protestant leaders are confident that Orthodoxy is warming up to the World Council. And the climate of Rhodes gave hope for even better relations. The two Russian observers-round-faced, balding Viktor S. Alexeev, 33, a layman on the staff of the Moscow patriarchate's foreign affairs department, and dark, beaky Archpriest Vitaly M. Borovoy, 43, professor of ecclesiastical history at Leningrad Theological Academy, had already spent three weeks studying the World Council at its headquarters in Geneva, and a delegation of W.C.C. leaders will return the visit in Moscow next December. Said the World...
...third General Assembly of the World Council will probably be held in New Delhi in 1961. Its theme: "Jesus Christ, the Light of the World...