Word: easterns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...absurd and impractical as to be insulting. It paid no more than token heed to the all-important Western insistence that any disarmament agreement is meaningless and dangerous without an ironclad control system. It ignored the self-evident fact that no totalitarian government, whether in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the Middle East or Asia, would freely consent to dismantle the military forces on which its power rested...
...with the Jews-advocated by leading Christian theologians, including Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich-would be something of a revolution for traditionally proselytizing Christianity, but he thinks that practice in coexistence might be valuable. "Today," he says, "Christianity is the religion of the West and primarily of whites." But Eastern religions, once passive, are showing renewed vitality and missionary zeal. "A revived Christian evangelism reasserting its 'Great Commission' to convert, and hence to dissolve, all other faiths, will not only embarrass America before the world; it will undercut our foreign policy and lend new fuel to the appeal...
...Amateur at the Broadmoor Golf Club in Colorado Springs as though it were just a casual round with his buddies back home in Columbus. Jack Nicklaus, 19, joked with opponents and officials alike, was undaunted by the tricky greens of the 7,010-yd. course hacked out of the eastern slope of the Rampart Range, 6,500 ft. above sea level. Because of the backdrop of jagged peaks, some level greens seemed to slope uphill, some uphill greens seemed flat...
...studied at the University of Uppsala. Says he: "I got my training in economics before 1914-before economics was turned upside down." He also got a lot of it from doing. From 1920 to 1928 he was a League of Nations economics consultant, trying to make the economies of eastern Europe work. After two years in business in Sweden, he returned to Basel in 1931 as head economist for the Bank of International Settlements, from which he was chosen to head the Fund...
...m.p.h.). the DC-8 boasts a few new passenger comforts, such as its unitized seat with fold-out table, reading lamp, call and air-flow buttons. With the jet, Delta, which put it in service from New York to Atlanta, got the jump on its chief competitor; Eastern Air Lines will not start jet service until January. For United, the coast-to-coast nonstop service came months behind the 707 flights of its chief competitors, American Airlines...