Word: faithfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Lausche, turned to the crash of an off-course U.S. Air Force C-130 transport in Soviet Armenia last September; Lausche doubted the Soviets' insistence that they knew nothing about eleven crewmen still unaccounted for. Mikoyan looked Lausche in the eye and said: "You have no faith in us." Last week the State Department put out a tape-recorded transcript (see Foreign Relations) that proved again and unforgettably that Communists give words a special meaning of their own. The Kremlin had denied that the C-130 had been shot down. But the transcript was the sound of Soviet...
...Communist Party's 21st Congress in Moscow last week, Nikita Khrushchev pleaded for a "thaw" in the cold war based upon mutual good faith. The evidence of good faith, by his standards, was his invitation to President Eisenhower to visit the U.S.S.R. The evidence of his true intent was his attack on U.S. leaders as "merchants of death," his warning to U.S. allies that they are making their countries potential Russian targets by harboring U.S. bases. The point was made doubly clear by the boast of Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky (see FOREIGN NEWS) that U.S.S.R. missiles could strike anywhere...
...education could remedy any and all human maladies. Confronted with the ignorance of the electorate, Jefferson proposed universal education. Confronted with the racism of Caucasians, the NAACP proposed integrated schools. Confronted with the rise of Sputnik, a chorus of voices is calling for a rougher academic curriculum. Since this faith in education is universal, the great debate of our time is not whether or not the schools can save us from radioactive ruin, but merely which educational policy will turn the trick...
...most matters of faith, this inquiry has theological overtones. The historical schism between the traditionalists and the progressives has left deep scars on the vocabulary of educators, so that certain phrases and programs evoke emotions disproportionate to their nebulous meanings...
Religion is the "single greatest obstacle to the Communist criminal conspiracy today," Herbert A. Philbrick, author of I Led Three Lives, told the Divinity School Forum last night. Deep religious faith, he said, "is keeping the spirit of resistance alive behind the Iron Curtain...