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...British Raj and the missionary sahibs from the Christian West, Hinduism seemed a creed outworn, soon destined to disappear. But it was just this twin invasion of commerce and Christianity, say two eminent Indian leaders, that has stirred Hinduism to new life...
...Against Discrimination, 18 U.S. airlines last week took a big step toward hiring Negroes for flight crews. The lines, all of which fly into New York, announced a joint policy of "judging applicants in all categories of employment and upgrading on the basis of merit, without regard to race, creed, color or national origin." In addition, they agreed not to solicit job seekers from agencies and schools that bar Negroes...
Civil Rights. Both decry discrimination because of race, color or creed and the use of force to implement the Supreme Court's desegregation decisions. But the Democrats merely "recognize the Supreme Court . . . as one of the three constitutional . . . branches of the Federal Government," and note that its decisions "have brought consequences of vast importance to our Nation as a whole." The Republicans "accept" the decisions, and say that public-school discrimination must be "progressively eliminated . . . with all deliberate speed...
...millions in Malaya, Siam and Burma, and the close to 100 million in the Middle East, and the 40 million inside the Soviet Union, and the other millions in far-flung parts of the world−when I consider these hundreds of millions united by a single creed, I emerge with a sense of the tremendous possibilities which we may realize through the cooperation of all these Moslems, a cooperation not going beyond the bounds of their natural loyalty to their own countries, yet enabling them and their brothers in faith to wield a power without limit...
...intimate of eagles and snakes, who radiates well-being and gives out serenity "as a flower gives its scent." Trouble begins when a group of Vaishnavas start to build a religious establishment on one of the islands. After years of privation the holy man has shed the "creed of any religion but he believed as the Hindus do that God is in all things, animate and inanimate, that all things are in God." Because he knows the religious project will destroy the living creatures on the islands, he declares war on the interlopers. But in the course of three assaults...