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...rare are councils?there have been only 20 in the nearly 2,000 years of Christian history???that merely by summoning Vatican II to "renew" the Roman Catholic Church Pope John made the biggest individual imprint on the year. But revolutions in Christianity are even rarer (the Reformation was 400 years ago), and John's historic mission is fired by a desire to endow the Christian faith with "a new Pentecost," a new spirit. It is aimed not only at bringing the mother church of Christendom into closer touch with the modern world, but at ending the division that...
...successes in space, threats of missiles and atomic war, the throngs of Europe, Asia and Africa cast a durable vote for freedom and liberty. The faces were turned to the U.S. and to the man who had become the nation's image in one of the grand plebiscites of history???Dwight David Eisenhower, President of the U.S., and Man of the Year...
...that the technical peace was not real, that they had to keep almost 3,000,000 men under arms, maintain a peacetime conscription and spend an average of $855 a family for defense. The year that saw the hydrogen explosion at Bikini?the biggest explosion in man's explosive history???was not one to foster illusions about an indefinite peace...
...Moscow aircraft exhibition in 1912. A huge manufacturing combine, the Society of Russian Baltic Railroad Car Factories, financed him, and with consummate confidence he set out to build the biggest flying machine the world had ever seen. It was "the Grand," the first four-engine transport plane in history???a magnificent affair with a glassed-in cabin, a dining table and an outside observation platform from which Sikorsky liked to admire the clouds as his creation lumbered through the air at 60 miles an hour...
...ATLAS OF EUROPEAN HISTORY???J. F. Horrabin ? Knopf ($1.50). Valuable handbook of maps, together with brief expositions, showing the significant changes in European boundaries from the Second to the 20th Century...