Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineering, young and fit enough to explore the unknown). Six sported crew cuts, four were their fathers' namesakes. Each was small-town-born, married, a father (one to four children), an active sportsman, a Protestant; each expressed an intimate love for the skies and an abiding faith in the heavens. Yet they were individualists...
Meany introduced the lone Administration spokesman. Labor Secretary James Mitchell, as "a good friend of "mine-I want everyone to know that." Said Mitchell: "I have enough faith in the basic health of the American economy to state that by October of this year there will be 67 million people at work, 3,000,000 more than there are today, and that unemployment will be 3,000,000 or less. And may I say to my friend George Meany: If this isn't so, George, when the October figures come out, on the steps of the Labor Department...
...Successors. Since the party's unwritten rule requires that the two top offices may not be held by men of the same faith, Catholic Konrad Adenauer's successor will presumably be a Protestant. The three leading candidates: Vice Chancellor Erhard, 62; Gerstenmaier, 52; and Finance Minister Franz Etzel, 56. Of the three, Etzel, a colorless Ruhr corporation lawyer would be most apt to follow Adenauer's tutelage in foreign affairs unquestioningly. Because Gerstenmaier is ready to trade away Germany's NATO membership if it will buy reunification from the Russians, he is less likely...
Defender of the Faith. For the four-year-old Dalai Lama, arrival in Tibet meant an end to childhood. He was enthroned at Lhasa in 1940 and endowed with many names-the Tender, Glorious One, the Holy One, the Mighty of Speech, the Excellent Understanding, the Absolute Wisdom, the Defender of the Faith. He sat through the hours-long ceremonies without complaint, a slim, grave-eyed boy with protuberant ears...
...guardianship of the world, to hosts of spirits. Yet, writes Tibetan Scholar Maurice Percheron: "All, from the Dhyani-Buddhas to the vilest ghost, are nothing but the sparklings of a single diamond . . . only Enlightenment allows one to perceive the unity that underlies all this diversity." This is the faith that reigns supreme in Tibet...