Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Glorious Gift. The frankness about sex even seems to carry the blessings of the highest moral authorities. Last October a British Council of Churches study group declined to censure premarital sex. British Quakers, for their part, declared: "Sexuality, looked at dispassionately, is neither good nor evil. As Christians, we have felt impelled to state without reservation that it is a glorious gift of God." When the British woman's magazine Nova asked a mother what she would tell her daughter about sex when she reached 16, the mother replied: "Tell her? Probably buy her a diaphragm...
...being sat upon by Lyndon Johnson and Aleksei Kosygin during the Glassboro summit conference? Robinson stood silent on the momentous matter, but the office of New Jersey Governor Richard J. Hughes disclosed that they had been shipped to Washington, along with an equally historic end table, as a gift for L.B.J. What then? "It's all a great big fat puzzle to me," said a Smithsonian man, as did a State Department man. Finally, White House Press Secretary George Christian spoke up: "The chairs are in storage, I guess...
...evangelical denominations, the largest of which is the Assemblies of God (U.S. membership: 572,000). Traditionally strong in the rural South, Pentecostalism has made notable recent gains among urban Negroes and Puer to Ricans, and has even taken root on U.S. college campuses. For those who have received the gift of speaking in tongues, it can be an ecstatic occurrence. Glossolalia usually happens at the climax of a Pentecostal service, when the revivalist "lays on hands"-places his hand on the head of a believer, who frequently enters a trance-like state, begins to utter a stream of glottal syllables...
...Bagdikian, offer dying papers for sale at a fair market price to independent buyers? To which Jack Howard replied that he and his co-publishers tried to give away the dying New York World Journal Tribune last spring, but there were no takers. "Nobody would accept it as a gift," said Howard. Whether Congress believes the Failing Newspaper Act is the way to rescue insolvent papers remains to be seen. A decision is still innumerable witnesses away...
...Strickman, 56, had impressive backing for his discovery. With full fanfare, it was announced by Columbia University's president, Grayson Kirk, and Dr. H. Houston Merritt, dean of Columbia's College of Physicians and Surgeons. Reason: Chemist Strickman gave Columbia the rights to the filter -a gift that may well bring the university millions in licensing fees...