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...wasn't an easy meeting, but it was a good one," said General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft of the World Council of Churches, as the council's tenth annual Central Committee meeting in Rhodes adjourned last week. The meeting was good for its air-clearing exchanges between Protestant and Orthodox delegates -and even, offstage, with the Roman Catholic observers to Rhodes (TIME, Aug. 31). It was also hard because it did not produce the one big thing the W.C.C. had hoped for: a real breakdown of the barriers separating the Protestant and Orthodox churches...
...Orthodox delegates held out to the end against the proposed merger between the W.C.C. and the International Missionary Council. Though they did not actually try to defeat the measure, they abstained from the vote that tentatively approved the plan, pending formal action by the W.C.C. General Assembly in New Delhi in 1961. Nevertheless, the friendly offices of pro-western Orthodox delegates made many Protestants more tolerant of Orthodoxy's ancient position. "It's a miracle that the Greek Church exists at all," said British-born Bishop Lesslie Newbigin of the Church of South India. "It's only...
...practice of coitus," declares Jones, "was familiar to me at the ages of six and seven, after which I suspended it and did not resume it till I was 24." This startling statement he leaves unexplained. No less tantalizing is his claim to inside knowledge of why British General Charles ("Chinese") Gordon and his besieged garrison were overwhelmed at Khartoum in 1885: "All the high endeavour . . . miscarried through the petty episode of Lord Charles Beresford's developing a boil on the bottom at the critical moment." At this critical moment in his anecdote, Jones drops the laconic footnote, "Private...
...idea, already in use in about 15% of U.S. school systems. "Testing the child and counseling the parent," predicted one school principal, "will some day replace age as the criteria." Last week in Cherry Creek, a well-to-do suburb of Denver, Superintendent Robert Higday Shreve countered the general acceptance of definite cutoff dates in the Denver area by admitting to the first grade a girl just 5 years 3 months old. "I decided my philosophy of education required a more flexible rule," says Shreve. "The psychologist reported the girl is ready for the first grade in every...
...that it was junking six "hardware'' courses, e.g., "Naval Boilers'" and "Ship Stability," in favor of "studies of a fundamental nature which will not soon go out of date." Among them: a new course in vector calculus, a 25% increase in the basic physics course, a general shift in all engineering subjects "away from applied engineering to more of a basic science approach." In another innovation, Annapolis will credit 190 incoming middies this fall for a total of 316 college courses they took before entering the academy. The new students will move straight into advanced classes, later...