Word: evilness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...consistently unsuccessful priest named Brother Juniper comes with his niece Rosita to Santiago de Gante, a Mexican village devoid of faith. At first scorned by the populace, Juniper restores the Catholic Church by wresting the town's people's patron saint, a chrome-plated cowboy called Santiago, from the evil General Braga, who runs a resort for the "canape-eaters" where a monastery once stood. Rosita, meanwhile, falls in love with Pepe, the local atheist, and accepts him when he finally sees the light...
...negotiate with the U.S.S.R. did not mean that the U.S. would give ground. That evening, at a dinner in the presidential palace, the President of the U.S. paid his own unique tribute to the doughty land that had done him such honor. Said he: "No power on earth, no evil, no threat can frustrate a people of your spirit...
...Oliver Treyz, Mutual's Robert F. Hurleigh. Smooth talk flew back and forth as everyone tried to outdo everyone else in deploring the subject at hand. Only a few admen were guilty of malpractice, of course ("There are also statesmen in advertising," said Treyz), but where evil exists, it must be stamped...
...issue of Jan. 4, 1960, TIME will reveal the identity of its 23rd Man of the Year-the person who, for good or evil, most powerfully influenced the course of events...
...500word statement issued after their week-long meeting in Washington, more than 200 Catholic cardinals, archbishops and bishops attacked popular talk of a world "population explosion" as "a smoke screen behind which a moral evil may be foisted on the public." Denounced by the U.S. Catholic hierarchy was "a systematic, concerted effort" to build support for the use of U.S. public funds "in promoting artificial birth prevention for economically underdeveloped countries." The church leaders urged instead greater scientific efforts to feed and uplift backward peoples. U.S. Catholics, declared the bishops, "believe that the promotion of artificial birth prevention...