Word: months
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Africa, India and Southeast Asia, nationalism has forced the Christian churches to speed up the process of turning control over to native churchmen. Just back from a two-month tour of African missions, Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles said last week that the whole future of Christianity in that part of the world depends on the speed and success of the handover. "We have failed in that we have tried to keep too much control by running 'white missions,' " said Kennedy. "We need to train more natives so that the missions can become more...
...world's indoor high-jump record is officially held by a Boston University freshman named John Thomas, who last month propelled himself 7 ft. 1¾ in. into space. Unofficially, it is held by the members of the Bolshoi Ballet, who last week bounded about the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House like a herd of nail-tailed wallabies. In the second week of their eight-week U.S. visit, the Russian dancers proved that they can leap higher, farther and more daringly than anything north of Australia. More important, in some dazzling performances of Swan Lake, they...
...critically as a young American in blue jeans and baseball cap whirled his scarlet cape in a long veronica, smoothly led the charging young practice heifer past him, its horns coming within inches of his legs. Though still a little stiff from a goring received in a fight a month ago, Baron Clements Jr., 20, of Kilgore, Texas shows signs of becoming the best U.S.-born matador in the alien art of bullfighting since the heyday of Brooklyn's Sidney Franklin 25 years...
...Construction contracts in March soared 23% above a year ago to reach a new record for the month. Biggest gain: single-family houses, which went up 49% above a year ago. Apartment units also registered a sharp gain...
...ninth straight month, consumer prices held steady in March at 123.7 of the 1947-49 index. This news from the Labor Department seemed proof enough that the U.S. is not in the grip of any new inflation, but it was almost drowned out last week in a rising din over the dangers of inflation ahead...