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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...RESIDENT OF FIJI WHO DISLIKES THE GOVERNMENT AND CONDITIONS IS PERFECTLY FREE TO LEAVE AND GO TO LIVE IN ANY PLACE OF HIS CHOICE, HEAVENLY OR HELLISH. AS A VISITOR TO FIJI, I FIND IT DELIGHTFUL AND NEITHER A HELL NOR A HEAVEN FOR ANYONE...
Outlook. Tagged both "conservative" and "liberal," Stewart refuses to admit to any simple ideological label. "I'd like to be thought of as a lawyer," he says. Southerners searching for a clue to his approach to desegregation could find it in a 1956 decision in which he rejected the Hillsboro (Ohio) school board's contention that, to avoid overcrowding, integration should be postponed until a new school building was completed: "The avoidance alone of somewhat overcrowded classrooms cannot justify segregation of school children solely because of the color of their skins.". The quality that a judge needs above...
...have already become, the Reds boast, "almost the only place one can eat." Instead of turning to his wife when his trousers need mending, the good commune member now takes his problem to the "sewing brigade." The result, declares Peking, is that 20 million women in seven provinces now find themselves "freed" to contribute the family pots and pans to a scrap-metal drive and turn their attention from housework to such progressive tasks as "road building, tree planting and ditch digging...
...they branded into men of all faiths a new need for direction and values beyond materialist optimism. Partly it was caused by the death of the old European order, which forced the Vatican to deal not with monarchs or heads of state but with the people, and to find new ways of reaching them. Above all, it was caused by Pius XII's insistence that the papacy had a mission to assert Christian truths about all phases of human life. The Pope delivered thousands of addresses to delegations from every imaginable trade, profession or calling-each address painstakingly composed...
...political power; at the time of his death, 52,552,000 Catholics were living in Communist-ruled countries. Again and again, he ringingly condemned Communism as an atheistic and materialistic evil, arch enemy of God and of human rights. In the Communist-ruled countries, Pius XII had to find a harrowing way between the extremes of a tough anti-Communist line that might have destroyed the church through reprisals and a collaborationist line that might have destroyed the church just as surely through spiritual surrender. Poland's Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski and his precarious stand-off with the Red regime...