Word: electives
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Food and shelter, of course, are not enough. "Above all," says Colonel Sam Wilson, 41, the onetime Merrill's Marauders officer who is on loan from the Army to head the USOM refugee relief program, "the refugees must be kept busy." They elect their own councils to run the camps. Handicraft programs have begun in some places. If land is available, they are encouraged to plant short-term crops. The government is considering training some of them as social welfare workers. Some may end up as teachers to provide elementary education to other refugees' children...
...Negro−literate or illiterate−who does vote in future elections will have to bear with the ordinary frustrations of democracy: broken promises, corruption, demagoguery, the essential voting weakness of a minority. Perhaps Negroes will at first elect a number of Adam Clayton Powells. But Negro political influence will grow in outright victory of Negro candidates in constituencies where Negroes are a majority, in balance-of-power situations elsewhere, in the minds of vote-hungry politicians everywhere, in political combination with the majority of whites, who wish the Negro well...
...housewives and civic-minded citizens. One important reason for that reputation is Wellesley College President Margaret Clapp, 55, who emphasizes a well-balanced liberal-arts education for her girls. She is a sharp critic of what she calls "the smorgasbord school," where students get a wide, undirected choice of elective courses that adds up to a smattering of everything and a challenge from nothing. She prefers what she calls the "plate dinner-and-dessert" menu, in which basic courses are balanced with a few enticing extras. That philosophy comes fittingly to Margaret Clapp, who was a writer of poetry...
Late in 1960, a mutual friend introduced Clifton to President-elect John Kennedy, and the two talked for 45 minutes. At the end of the session, Kennedy said: "We may be seeing more of each other." The day before Kennedy's inauguration, he named Clifton to be his military aide...
...faith since the 1647 Westminster Confession-is that it betrays rather than updates traditional Presbyterian beliefs. Conservatives claim that it downgrades the Bible from the infallible word of God to a mere "normative witness" of revelation, discards the Calvinist teaching on the predestination of God's elect, and conceives of the church primarily as a social organism to further racial and economic justice. Stimson also charges that it provides theological justification for the scuttling of the democratic Presbyterian form of church government-a necessary prelude to merger with other denominations...