Word: maintainence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tool, and a great tool, to be used or laid aside as the genius of any people directs." Communism is "a means of dividing and enslaving thought and will. It should go back to its historical cemetery." As for Nationalism, the twentieth century subtracted from it the ability "to maintain national life." As he flicks the shrouds of his chosen ghosts. Author Berle agrees with Barbara Ward that the only way to exorcise them permanently is to set up economic and political "world organizations...
...Graham enthusiasts maintain that the results of Graham's other big-city crusades have been tangible, if hard to measure. Says Presbyterian Minister and Author Dan Poling: "What about the entire history of Christianity since St. Peter preached at Pentecost? ... Is not Christianity itself the direct result of evangelism, mass evangelism included...
...Dorothy's Rest north of San Francisco, run by the Sisters of the Transfiguration, last week's weekend retreat consisted of 30 men-two schoolteachers, one attorney, two retired, and 25 businessmen. Retreatants maintain silence except for a member selected to read aloud during meals and for private conferences with the retreat conductor. Members are encouraged to read such works as The Imitation of Christ, Evelyn Underbill's Worship, T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. "It seems to me," says Canon Eric Montezambert, "that men are more deeply interested in retreats than women...
...cannot even consider a tax cut this year or next. The earliest date for a cut would be January 1959, and then only if the Government succeeds in checking its spending and inflation. Said Brundage: "For the present, I believe that our major fiscal objectives should be to maintain a budget surplus and continue reductions in the public debt, with reductions in the present high tax rates only when our budget surplus and the economic outlook justify them...
...mercifully scrapping the Tonight format and reverting to the freewheeling foolishness of the old Ernie Kovacs-Steve Allen days, with slouchy, sentimental Jack Paar picking up the pieces left by this season's witless nightclub gossipists. For the first time in its ten years. Kraft TV Theater will maintain its $50,000 winter budget despite polls that indicate a viewer decline in summer. Tentatively set for Thursday as NBC's biggest summer show is a new "low highbrow'' quiz called High Low with Charles Van Doren as a panelist. Continuing live in their oldtime slots: Twenty...