Word: focusing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...District Judge Alexander Holtzoff in Washington, who ordered the brotherhood to meet a return-to-work deadline or be fined $25,000 a day. Only after the four-day walkout ground to a halt last week did the full magnitude of the railway union's troubles come into focus...
...REPORTS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). "The Other War in Viet Nam" will focus on Binh Dinh province, detailing the scope of the joint U.S. and South Vietnamese rural construction and development activities currently under way in key areas of South Viet...
...area of ironic negligence: the lack of strong federal laws against racial murder. Given the intransigence of many Southern juries, often nothing more than a fuzzy, fragile bit of Reconstruction legislation stands between segregationist killers and total freedom. Last week the U.S. Supreme Court moved to sharpen the focus - and the teeth - of those 19th century laws in decisions that dealt with two of the South's most wanton racist slayings: the June 1964 murder of three civil rights workers near Philadelphia, Miss., and the shotgun killing along a Georgia highway three weeks later of Lemuel Penn, a Washington...
...focus legislative attention on the chief causes of accidents, about which auto experts have little precise data, the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory announced that it will conduct a three-year study of accidents in Buffalo, N.Y. Said Dr. B. J. Campbell, head of the laboratory's accident research division: "We don't want to make a massive allocation of the country's resources to combat an accident cause that maybe ranks only 87th among causes." The study will be financed with $800,000 from the Automobile Manufacturers Association...
...have. But a Christ-centered theology that skirts the question of God raises more questions than it answers. Does it not run the risk of slipping into a variety of ethical humanism? And if Jesus is not clearly related in some way to God, why is he a better focus of faith than Buddha, Socrates or even Albert Camus? Rather than accept this alternative, a majority of Christians would presumably prefer to stay with the traditional language of revelation at any cost. And it is not merely conservative evangelists who believe that the words and ideas of Scripture have lost...