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...Formosa Strait to guard President Eisenhower's way. We could see Quemoy and hear in the distance the muted thunder of the 88,000-gun salute. In January we were part of the special striking force assembled and deployed from Okinawa on New Year's Day. On Easter day we watched and waited in readiness on the South China...
...known about Jesus was set down by the early church after the resurrection, when the first Christians saw him as the Messiah and composed the Gospels to prove it. Therefore, says Bultmann, one cannot know anything of the "Jesus of history'' as he was before the first Easter, walking and talking among...
...alive, even among the form critics themselves. A leading example of the search is the work of French Theologian Oscar Cullmann, discussed in a roundup of current European theology in the Protestant quarterly Religion in Life. Cullmann maintains that just because the Gospels are the product of the post-Easter church is no reason why it is impossible to reach back beyond the crucifixion to the historical Jesus and "distinguish between the places where the Gospel writers obviously express their own view and the places where they report the words of Jesus himself...
...They lounge beneath lampposts, lips leaking cigarettes, cameras drawn like automatics. "Come see lo facio secco [When he comes out, I'll drill him]," they snarl, while waiting for their quarry to open a nightclub door. Then the paparazzi attack. These days they find more and more targets. Easter is past, celebrities are drifting down the peninsula, and hot times are ahead...
...taking for granted that the recession has reached its low point. Government economists began nervously eying the quality of the recovery. Aside from a quickening of business confidence, they had a few definite signs to go by-a slight increase in steel orders, department store sales up 5% in Easter week, auto sales for March up 15%. Of the twelve leading indexes, e.g., raw-material prices, that the National Bureau of Economic Research uses to measure the business cycle, nine have already turned upward. Said Walter Heller, chief of the President's Council of Eco nomic Advisers: "We assume...