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...Rabbinical Council of America asked all Orthodox Jewish congregations planning new synagogues to include fallout shelters, open them to everyone regardless of creed. Representing 800 rabbis with 1,500,000 followers, the council also urged that community shelters be built throughout the nation...
...most far-reaching was the 8th (1919), which endorsed the Comintern as the export agency for worldwide Communist revolution, and adopted Lenin's creed that wars with capitalist states are "fatalistically inevitable." Even more dramatic was the 2Oth in 1956 at which Khrushchev 1) reversed Lenin by announcing that peaceful coexistence had become a fundamental principle of Soviet policy, and 2) in a six-hour, closed-session speech reviled Stalin as a "brutal, despotic" merchant of "moral and physical annihilation...
...Beginning next month, all interstate buses will carry signs with the legend: "Seating aboard this vehicle is without regard to race, color, creed or national origin." The signs will be displayed by order of the Interstate Commerce Commission, which, six years after declaring that segregated seating on interstate buses is illegal, finally decided to do something to stop it. The ICC issued orders to licensed common carriers barring them from maintaining such seating or using terminals where facilities are still segregated. Violations will bring a fine...
Finally, the Corporation, while affirming the basic Christian character of the Church, opened it for all "private" services. The Corporation said that the University "does not intend to assert the validity of the tenets of any denomination or creed." Pusey said, "If I were asked whether Harvard were a secular university, I would answer, 'Yes.' But it has within it a tradition of worship; one could wish that this were broad enough to include everyone in the community...
...perennial thorn in the flesh of high-church U.S. Episcopalians is the official name of their denomination: the Protes tant Episcopal Church. It is bad enough, they feel, that Roman Catholics so often get away with calling themselves plain Catholics, although anyone who says the Apostles' Creed identifies himself as a member of the Holy Catholic Church.* But to carry the label Protestant, which goes back more to Martin Luther than to the fuss with Henry VIII, seems to them unjustly imprecise...