Word: earthing
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...Hers is a task much in contrast to the imperial role of her grandparents (later George V and Queen Mary) when they toured India in 1905 (see cut). Now the prides, loyalties and sympathies that Canadians feel are shared, in some degree at least, by the quarter of the earth's population that belongs to the Commonwealth of Nations. An explanation of the great political invention called the Commonwealth and a definition of the historically new job that Elizabeth has in reigning over it will be found in this week's HEMISPHERE cover story, The Redeemed Empire...
...more populous than that fabulous Empire welded together by the strong-willed ministers of her great-great-grandmother. Victoria. Born of a snug union of Britain and Dominions of European stock, it now has hundreds of millions of brown, black and yellow men. It covers one quarter of the earth's land mass, contains one-fourth of the world's people, and carries on within its confines one-third of the world's trade...
Robert B. McNeill was on the way through law school at the University of Alabama when he switched to Richmond's Union Theological Seminary. But for Alabama-born Seminarian McNeill, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth had separate entrances marked WHITE and COLORED; as a member of the basketball team he refused to play against Richmond's Negro College, Virginia Union, and at an inter-seminary conference he balked at sitting down to lunch with the Negro delegates...
Until the birth of LIFE 23 years ago, top U.S. photographers were rare. Today, they range the earth in peace and war, catching the human face in joy and pain, laying out the world before eager eyes. Sometimes they work alone amid squalor and risk; sometimes they haunt the watering holes of wealth. Wherever they are, some 300 artist-hustlers are likely to swap fond recollections of the quiet little man who launched them: Clarence A. (for Abel) Bach, 65, founder of the first U.S. high school photo-journalism course. Last week, after 34 brilliant years at Los Angeles...
Citation: "From your contemplation of birds of paradise, you have developed principles that may profoundly affect the destiny of men on earth...