Word: insistences
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Episcopalians and Presbyterians have done the most to standardize ministerial salaries, but the American Baptists are improving rapidly. When a church reports to its local association that a new minister is needed. Baptist officials check into the congregation's need and clerical preferences-but they also insist that the church pay enough. In Utah a congregation raised its standing salary for a minister from $6,000 to $8,000 on the association's recommendation...
...President presently plans to spend five campaign-season weekends traveling through twelve to 15 states. Even if he bills some of these voyages as "nonpolitical," he will, of course, be campaigning on behalf of Democratic candidates. And he will insist that it has been the Republican minority in Congress that has, through obstructionist opposition, kept him from getting the U.S. moving again...
...Southern Rhodesia, the only self-governing member of the troubled Central African Federation. The government has softened harsh apartheid rules and promised Africans a few seats in the legislature next year. But the blacks are not satisfied. They outnumber the whites 3,000,000 to 220,000, insist on "one man, one vote"−now. Since mid-July, they have pushed their cause by attacking police patrols, stoning motorists, cutting telephone lines and burning down schools...
...second debut in Vienna in January. The proposed itinerary from then on reads like something out of an American Express folder: Belgrade, Athens, Rome, Monaco, Berlin, Stockholm, Brussels, London, Dublin, Paris, Munich. Overseas booking agent for the show will be the U.S. Information Agency,* chosen because some European museums insist on operating exclusively on the government level...
...Warren, Pa. (pop. 14,500) is overruling pedagogues who insist that five is the age to start school. In the first such community-wide experiment, Warren schools will enroll smart tots aged three years and eight months...