Word: memberships
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prime Minister Harold Wilson concluded his speech to a packed Parliament. "This " is a historic decision," he intoned, "which could well determine the future of Britain, of Europe and indeed of the world, for decades to come." The decision was, of course, that of Britain to apply for membership in the Common Market for a second time. Four years ago the Tories applied, and were rudely vetoed by Charles de Gaulle after nine months of nit-picking negotiations in Brussels over such items as East Indian tanned hides and Australian kangaroo meat. In his speech to Parliament, Wilson made...
...life-single, married and priests-that they can love and serve God without giving up their ordinary work, their family or their normal social relations. My teaching has been that sanctity is not reserved for a privileged few. Every profession, every honest task can be divine." In Spain, the membership of Opus Dei includes movie directors, jet pilots, labor leaders, high-fashion hairdressers and, as Escrivá proudly points out, even a barber in Seville...
...reassure him that the U.S.-sponsored nuclear nonproliferation treaty would not handicap non-nuclear nations from fully developing the industrial applications of atomic energy. He talked for 45 minutes with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, encouraging him to go ahead with his decision to apply for Common Market membership...
...happily created Riverside Church-a stately imitation of Chartres Cathedral, whose 22-story bell tower dominates Morningside Heights. During Fosdick's pastorate, the church ministered primarily to the intellectual community near Columbia. Under McCracken, Riverside has become involved in trying to solve the problems of a declining neighborhood. Membership-now at an alltime high of 3,500-includes Negro and Puerto Rican poor as well as university professors. The church's seven-man staff of ministers has helped sponsor integrated housing, runs a preschool program and adult-education classes. Its radio station, WRVR, airs some of the city...
...most of the strikers, the basic issue involved in Curran's firing was not a question of the correctness of his views but of the faculty's right to decide on the competence of its membership. "I do not approve of Curran's ideas on birth control," admitted Sculpture Professor Alexander Giampietro, one of the strike supporters, "but I defend the man's right to say what he thinks...