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Much of the discussion centered on two papers. Dr. Conrad Bergendoff, president of Augustana College (Lutheran), warned that the unity represented by the World Council of Churches "is still marginal and peripheral," and will remain so until Christianity can be "expressed in common confessions of faith." Presbyterian John Leith, of...
Irreversible Commitment. The planned eight-year transition period will see a drastic reorganization of traditional European agricultural patterns. As governments strive to make their farms competitive, countless families from Bavaria to south ern Italy will be forced off marginal farms; in most cases, they will be drawn into Europe'...
Push for Change. The 1957 Treaty of Rome, which established the Common Market, provided for gradual tariff reductions, and industry quickly adjusted to the newly freed competition. Some inefficient mines and marginal businesses had to shut down, but the Common Market created so much new prosperity that such dislocations were...
"The organization is not half as sinister as people imply," said the Dean. "I am satisfied in my own mind that suspicions about HSA are marginal and that at heart HSA is a worthwhile enterprise."
In 1532 Francisco Pizarro, an illiterate swineherd from western Spain, captured the Inca emperor by trickery, and had him strangled. Within a decade the bridges were tumbled, irrigation systems shattered, imperial warehouses emptied; the enormous llama herds that provided meat and clothing were scattered and slaughtered. The conquistadors cut the...