Word: mende
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chaplain Hedley's main concerns is disunity in the Christian Church -"the pathetic tearing of the seamless robe of Christ." Hoping to help mend it, and also to ease the minds of Episcopal students who take the sacraments at his hands, Chaplain Hedley, with the consent of his own Methodist bishop, applied to California's Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike for ordination under Canon...
Recumbent Wishes. In 1957, full of years, Herriot died at 84. Ex-Premier Guy Mollet called him "the very incarnation of the Republic." Said ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France: "For 34 years I have admired, followed and loved him." Herriot's free-thinking friends were at first startled, and then indignant, to hear that on his deathbed, Lifelong Agnostic Edouard Herriot had gone back into the Roman Catholic Church, and been buried with church ritual...
Next morning every front page in Paris headlined Mitterrand's escape, and most praised his coolness. A longtime ally of ex-Premier Mendès-France and ten times a Cabinet minister under the Fourth Republic, brilliant Franç Mitterrand was regarded by many of his colleagues as overambitious and opportunistic, but few doubted his basic honesty. Yet why attack Mitterrand? As a member of the ineffectual left-wing opposition, he had had no voice in shaping De Gaulle's Algerian policy. The attacks suggested that France's frustrated rightists were capable of anything. The government offered...
...four months. He still has no feeling or movement in the limb. Not for another few months will the surgeons undertake thg. tricky task of reopening the leg to sew together the finger-thick sheath of the sciatic (spinal) nerve. They are going on surgeons' experience that nerves mend better when they are connected several months after an accident, figure that Smith will start walking again-although with a severe limp-within a year...
...soon announced that the card from the U.S. firm was fraudulent and a "crude attempt" to stir up anti-American sentiment. Who was guilty of the outrage? Observers pointed out that neutralist Cambodia's relations with its pro-Western neighbors, South Viet Nam and Thailand, were on the mend after several years of tension (TIME, March 16). Only one group stood to gain from chaos in Cambodia: the Communists...