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...possibility of some kind of restrictions on nonwhite immigration to Britain, Butler was in tune with an increasingly vocal segment of British opinion. The Trades Union Congress (see below) last week condemned any proposal to raise bars against Commonwealth non-whites and the Labor Party planned to insert an antidiscrimination plank in its next election program. Yet three of London's twelve leading newspapers-the Daily Mail, Daily Mirror and Daily Telegraph-supported restrictions as did a growing number of Tory M.P.s and a few Laborites. And at week's end the Daily Express announced that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Hotting Hill Nights | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...rest had been slaughtered, they said, by "short-eared" Polynesian invaders centuries ago. Easter Island's Mayor Pedro Atan demonstrated how the statues might have been raised on their platforms by having a crew of eleven men gradually pry up a fallen idol with poles, and then insert rocks under it until it could be lifted to its feet. It took 18 days. Convinced that the mayor possessed a secret handed down through ten generations, Heyerdahl asked why Atan had never revealed it before. "No one asked me," said the mayor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Hipster Islanders | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

...held, but scripture is the true channel of grace-the Word and man's will lead to faith, and faith in Jesus Christ will redeem man from his sins. So sure did he feel of "justification by faith" that in his translation of the Bible he dared to insert the word "alone"' on his own authority. Against what he saw as a privileged caste of priests, he maintained "the priesthood of all believers.'' and against the Roman institution of canon law. he held that each Christian had a vocation to change the world with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The New Lutheran | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...soup kitchen and a spiritual counseling department, organized a series of "caravans" to tour jails with samba bands and radio singers. One of his most popular radio gimmicks: the "Prayer Chain," a long prayer by Zarur with a pause in the middle for the listener to insert his own petition to God. Says Zarur's secretary: "It cures almost anything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Zarur the Prophet | 3/24/1958 | See Source »

...touched by the carbon light of the street lamp, they were as white as sugar. The extravagant foliage which had been wrought into them by machinery showed even more sharply white where the light touched, and elsewhere was black in the limp cloth." These scenes were meant to be inserted in the story's sequence a la Faulkner, but Agee died before he did it and the editors have wisely chosen to print them as prologues to the book's sections rather than insert them without...

Author: By John H. Fincher, | Title: James Agee's 'A Death in the Family' Tells a Story of Love and Loneliness | 12/5/1957 | See Source »

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