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Next step will be to get member nations to vote the money. For purse-poor UNESCO, this may take some doing. The architects are also bracing for a possible fuss from architecturally conservative Parisians. To avoid conflict with existing styles nearer midcity, the building is to be set at the edge of the Bois de Boulogne; but Parisian reaction cannot be taken for granted. Said French Architect Zehrfuss: "They're noted bellyachers...
...high enough price and stockpile it for atomic weapons. Now, said Zuckert, "we may hit upon the development of power at competitive cost from non-plutonium-producing reactors . . . The strides that engineers and scientists are making are so great that 'power only' reactors may be nearer than we dare hope...
...president of the Episcopal Church's House of Deputies; of a heart attack; in Boston. Elected president of the House a second time by the church convention, Dean Sprouse had just finished his acceptance speech ("One great job . . . is to try to push this world a little bit nearer to the Kingdom of our Lord, Jesus Christ") and turned away from the podium, when he collapsed on the platform. Doctors were called from the audience, and the dean's wife and daughter hurried to the stage. Minutes later, as the Rt. Rev. Edward Welles, Bishop of West Missouri...
...population of the colonies increased, it became impossible for the old guard to continue enforcing their own ideas. The practice of church government grew nearer its democratic theory, and pious colonists began taking their new views on the "consent of the governed" into politics. After several generations of sermons on the subject, the New Englander of the 1750s displayed a rooted religious belief that "liberty was his just and inalienable heritage," a statement which Europeans knew only as a sophisticated political theory...
...hostility to the U.S. ally. "Her Majesty's government...ought to have been allowed to express an opinion as to whether this was wise," said he. "I think it is a profound mistake in psychology, and it is not the first...I think it...may lead us dangerously nearer to a general conflagration in theEast...