Word: meetings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President suggested, has come to the point where it should pay normal interest rates on its new loans. "America is engaged in a great debate on the rule of government in the lives of her citizens. Shall government live within its means; shall our citizens, in a prosperous time, meet the cost of the service they desire of their government? Or is it to be our established policy to follow the ruinous route of free republics of the past ages, the route of deficit financing, of inflation, of taxes ever rising, until all initiative and self-reliant enterprise are destroyed...
...West Germany's businessmen are aggressively pushing ahead with a more realistic version of the old "Drive to the East." In Beirut last week the beaming manager of the local Volkswagen agency had only one complaint: he could not get cars shipped in from Germany fast enough to meet Lebanese demand. In northeast Iran 250 West German engineers and technicians roamed the hills busily drawing up plans for factories, power plants and municipal water systems...
Yale has not been beaten in dual swimming meets since 1945, when a war-depleted team lost to Army. Last week Kiphuth was in his accustomed spot at poolside as his charges walloped Columbia 57-29-Yale's 176th consecutive dual-meet victory, and notable only for the fact that it surpassed Kiphuth's own earlier record of 175 consecutive victories set between 1924 and 1937. But a sadder milestone faces Kiphuth. He has reached Yale's mandatory retirement age of 68, will be forced to retire at the end of this season. Phil Moriarty. a trusted...
...news of the current indoor track season has been height rather than speed. At the Inquirer meet in Philadelphia, muscular Don Bragg, 23-year-old Army private, vaulted 15 ft. 9½ in. to break the 16-year-old world indoor record. At the New York Athletic Club meet in Madison Square Garden, Boston University's High Jumper John Thomas, 17, deprived of a world indoor mark when his 7 ft. jump was not measured correctly a fortnight ago, did it all over again to make his mark official...
...their chalet headquarters at Geneva last week, 14 top leaders of the World Council of Churches met for one of the most exciting meetings in the council's ten-year history. Cause of the stir: Pope John's dramatic announcement of an ecumenical council in 1961 or 1962 (TIME, Feb. 9), which will examine the question of Christian unity and may well include Protestant observers. The problem before the council: On what terms can other Christians meet with Roman Catholicism in the face of its insistence that it is the only true Christian church...