Word: high
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee based part of its argument on a statement of practical problems: the worldwide "population explosion," high incidence of abortion, Christianity's occasional tendency to escape reality by taking refuge in tradition. Says the report: "The extremely high rates of abortion in many regions, Eastern and Western, with their toll of human suffering and violation of personality, testify to a tragic determination among parents to find some means, however bad, to prevent unwanted births." The committee added: "It must be confessed that in the past Christian thought has, especially in the area of the family and its relationships, often...
...them in Madrid. During the past decade, with tentative approval from the Franco regime, Madrid's Jews have held makeshift services in a room that became known, after its owner, as "Lawenda's basement"; occasionally, they managed to rent space in the Castellano Hilton for the High Holy Days. Then, five years ago, Madrid's Jewish community started drawing plans for a permanent synagogue...
Standards at North American College are high: 30% of the class usually fails to finish. As a training ground for U.S. Catholic hierarchy, the college's record is spectacular; of 1,900 priests graduated in the past 100 years, 115 have become bishops, one became a Trappist abbot, and six (sole survivor: New York's Spellman) later wore the cardinal...
...Angeles dry cleaner, Sherry was born with clubfeet, did not recover from corrective surgery until he was twelve. But Larry grimly pitched by the hour to Brother Norm (now a third-string catcher for the Dodgers), eventually developed enough speed to be a star at Fairfax High School. Signed by the Dodgers, Sherry looked like just another scatter-armed fireballer, once walked 15 men in three innings, had one losing season after another as he wandered through the lower reaches of the minors (Santa Barbara, Great Falls, Mont., Newport News...
...cases reported and filmed-in the hours just before show time. The news budget is restricted to five or six items, and which man takes the lead depends entirely on whether the best story is in Huntley's territory or Brinkley's. What they turn out ranks high not only with Nielsen but also with official Washington. Asked by a survey agency last August to name their favorite news program, members of Congress gave Huntley-Brinkley Report top rank (32.8% v. 16.1% for the second choice, ABC's John Daly). In a personal note, Viewer Dwight Eisenhower...