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Last January the Christian Century noted with considerable concern that the man who has guided the World Council of Churches since its formation fifteen years ago would be stepping down from his position as General Secretary "within a year or two." The ecumenical magazine pondered the chances of replacing Willem Adolph Visser't Hooft and concluded that it was not possible. For Dr. Visser't Hooft is at once a kind of charismatic leader-prophet, an astute theologian, and a gifted diplomat. His successor may be one or some of these things, but it is unlikely that he will...
During the summer of 1960, both sides agreed to the appointment of a fifteen-man Presidential commission (five men each from labor and management and five neutrals, including John T. Dunlop, professor of Economics). This body studied the question for thirteen months before issuing a lengthy report which, in essence, considered firemen unnecessary on all except passenger trains. But the report also expressed a concern for those men now holding jobs. As a result, the Commission suggested the gradual elimination of most of their positions through attrition, while recommending benefits for those men with less seniority, who were...
...dispensing justice in such cases, the law generally relies on a time-tested decision. In England in 1843, a Scotsman named Daniel M'Naghten, fancying some grievance against England's Prime Minister, Sir Robert Peel, shot and killed the Prime Minister's secretary by mistake. Fifteen British magistrates agreed that M'Naghten did not understand the "nature and quality" of his act-in short, could not tell right from wrong while committing the crime-and was therefore insane. Instead of going to the gallows, the daft Scot went to an asylum...
...first time in fifteen years, Harvard harriers will be running in the NCAA cross-country championships Captain Ed Meehan and star sophomore Walt Hewlett face a field of over 240 runners from 45 schools at Michigan State this afternoon...
...Fifteen speeches are included in the section of the book entitled "The Crisis." They range in subject from the Congo to disarmament, to Red Chins, to Cubs. While without exception they ring with Stevenson's impeccable rhetoric, almost every speech is an infraction of the Ambassador's public philosophy. In some cases they go so far as to attack his own beliefs as expressed as a private citizen. For example, in opposing Red China's entry into the world body, he condemns their "aggressive violence" at length, and argues against those who maintain that membership in the U.N. would encourage...