Word: dayes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last month, delegates from 49 countries met to tackle the problem of assigning liability for oil spills on the high seas. What is left unsolved is a really efficient way of removing oil from the ocean without further damaging marine life. In Manhattan last week, oilmen attending a three-day conference on oil spills, sponsored by the Federal Government and the oil industry, were told that spreading straw on top of the water is still one of the best ways to sop up the black tide. But, as Lavon P. Haxby, an expert on oil control...
...instrument of precision," as being "passionately lucid," and as "totally lacking in ambition or vanity." Last week Hubert Beuve-Méry stepped down from the job that had made him the object of such attention, if not always affection. At 67-25 years to the day after he founded it-he retired as editorial director of Le Monde...
...suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly Host praising God" and singing Handel's Messiah. Though cynics may snarl "But who may abide the day of His coming?" they will be a small, silent (or at least ignored) minority. As Christmas threatens from Tokyo to Toledo, Messiahs are busting out again all over the world. The work is being staged, illustrated with color slides, tinkled through by tiny orchestras, blasted over by huge ones, shouted by great singers and squeaked by small ones. In New York and San Francisco, people are paying to sight-read...
...most notable fact in religion today is that ministers of all denominations are trying, somewhat desperately but with immense energy and imagination, to find new ways to carry God back into the everyday life of society and to make him, in the prevailing cliche of the day, "relevant." This is not primarily a theological movement. Still, important new trends in theology suggest that God may best be met in the co-creation of a more humane society or, internally, in the deepest structures of our own psyches (see box, page 42). As so often in the history of faith, this...
Schools in New Brunswick, N.J., hard hit by vandalism and racial turmoil, were forced to close for a day last October when Chicago's Continental Casualty Co. refused to renew coverage. Elsewhere, premium rates are rapidly inflating. Atlanta's school fire insurance costs rose from $60,000 to $200,000 last year. Nolan E. Allen, business manager of the Indianapolis school system, wonders about the reasoning behind insurance. "A company says that it wants to take care of you when there is a risk," he muses. "But when you do have a risk, it says goodbye...