Word: missions
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Democratic Touch. The visiting churchmen had more important issues to face than Hargis-style hostility. In its two decades of existence, the World Council has grown into an organization of 232 Protestant, Anglican and Orthodox churches with a total constituency of more than 300 million people. Yet its ecumenical mission of Christian unity is increasingly taking second place to more pressing problems: the demands for social and economic justice by underdeveloped countries; the rising ,clamor of young churchmen for a greater voice in ecclesiastical policymaking; the drift of many dissident believers into "underground" worship, imperiling the very foundations...
...Bishop James K. Mathews of Boston, to study ways of reorganizing the council itself. Among the proposals the group will consider is whether to turn over some of the Geneva secretariat's functions to regional or national offices. Other decisions taken were to send Blake on a peace mission to the Middle East and to hold meetings later this year on how the church can do more to fight racism, poverty and disease around the world. To Blake, such enlightened concern seems ample evidence of the organized church's contemporary relevance. Despite currents of anti-institutionalism sweeping...
...more than three months, H.M.S. Highburton plowed endlessly back and forth over a measured mile in choppy waters between the southern coast of England and the Isle of Wight. It was a monotonous mission for the crew of the coastal mine sweeper, but it may well prove momentous for the commercial fleets and navies of the world. During those test runs, the British Admiralty said last week, a versatile chemical helped the little ship to cut its normal fuel consumption by 15% and to reach speeds higher than it had ever before attained...
...robbing the school bank; they shot him dead. In New York City, a high school chemistry teacher stepped into the hall to investigate a disturbance; three youths squirted lighter fluid on his clothing and set him aflame. In San Francisco, helmeted police dispersed teen-agers from the grounds of Mission High School after violence had flared between black and Spanish-speaking students for six successive days. In Hamden, Conn., seven students were arrested for participating in a racial brawl in the high school cafeteria...
Though CBS will have to scratch two of its top Sunday prime-timers, the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and Mission: Impossible, the network is undoubtedly delighted with the arrangement. The sponsor, Xerox, is inserting only two commercials into the 2½-hour play. The Royal Shakespeare Company, which Hall helped turn into Britain's most distinguished repertory company, may eventually give CBS as many as 20 plays for U.S. television and for later release as feature films. At present, Actor Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons) and Director Peter Brook (Marat/Sade, The Visit) are working together...