Word: mans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that was approved by only 57% of the voters of Yuba City-even though the state constitution requires a 66⅔% yes vote. The need for approval by any more than a simple majority, he ruled, violates the federal constitutional guarantee of equal protection-the basis of the one-man, one-vote doctrine...
...exercises, in which emotions had to be expressed without speech, pats soon gave way to hugs between men and women and between blacks and whites. Some of the women could not hide their discomfort at their first physical contact with blacks. After one handshake, a black man said to a white woman, "Look-see-none of it rubbed off." One older white man obstinately moved off to a corner and refused to participate, saying, "I wasn't brought up this...
...decisions involving libel of public figures. To win, Alioto must prove malicious intent or utter carelessness in checking on the part of Look, Carlson and Brisson. Butts won his case because the Post made virtually no effort to check the story. Look, however, released a statement saying that many man-hours were spent checking and re-checking the piece. While some foresaw Alioto's political doom, others predicted his victory in court and a huge sympathy vote if he runs against Ronald Reagan for Governor in 1970. The only certainty in the affair, wrote Columnist Herb Caen, is that...
UNTIL the end of the 19th century, evangelistic Christianity nearly always meant a heroic dedication both to spreading the Gospel and to helping one's fellow man. In England, Philanthropist William Wilberforce typified that spirit when, after his conversion, he led the fight for abolition of slavery throughout the British Empire. In the U.S., too, evangelicals were involved in the abolitionist movement and in fights against civic corruption, poverty, prostitution and "demon rum." Only as the 19th century waned did the shock of the newly secular world and a creeping pessimism about man cause evangelical* churches to retreat into...
...missionaries to convert Africans, but suggests to the Afro-American that he go to church with his own kind?" Ford also attacked evangelical apathy (if not active opposition) toward social action in the U.S. "Christians have a stake in preserving historic truth," he acknowledged, "but since sin infects every man and institution, we need a holy discontent with the status quo. The Gospel calls for constant change. We cannot identify our Gospel with the past." On the other hand, warned Ford, the church should not be "the water boy of world revolution." Too many revolutions, he argued, "fail to grasp...