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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they become Christians. Since when, replies Presbyterian Minister George E. Sweazey in this week's Christian Century, should a Christian "inquire into a man's ethnic origins before deciding whether to be concerned about his religious state? Who is my neighbor? If a person in spiritual need is of Hebrew ancestry, shall we pass by on the other side, hoping that a rabbi will chance to come along and care...
There is plenty of spiritual need among U.S. Jews, says Presbyterian Sweazey, chairman of the National Council of Churches' new department on the Christian approach to the Jews. Even those with a strong sense of their Jewish tradition are inclined to hold it as a kind of "super-intense patriotism" rather than a religion. "What Christians desire for their Jewish brethren is not so much conversion as continuation, a building onto their heritage, not a break with it. Religiously we all are Jews. It is intolerable that we should abandon those to whom we owe so much just...
...last through some particular crisis. This behavior is followed closely by drinking before breakfast (more than 95% of all alcoholics treated at Shadel Hospital have admitted doing so). The patient insists that he never gets "drunk," which may be true, since a constantly high level of blood alcohol need not impair his actions at first. Later it does; more and more he cannot seem to "hold" his liquor, may finally admit to himself that he is really "drunk." It is hard to deny; he can no longer control his behavior, is beset by marriage, money and job crises. His main...
...security analysts were looking for cheaper buys than exist in the booming U.S. stock market. Though European prices have risen sharply in the past six months, stock yields are still higher and price-earnings ratios lower than in the U.S. The analysts found plenty of reasons why U.S. investors need to be sophisticated in buying European securities. Tax laws and accounting systems differ; dangers of nationalization and freezing of capital still lurk in some countries; many European companies have yet to adopt the U.S. attitude that the stockholders have every right to look at the books. In Leverkusen, West Germany...
Some German businessmen were openly cool to U.S. investment. "American stock purchases overseas," said Georg Bruns, manager of the Frankfurt stock exchange, "often have a speculative character. We need sound, long-term support from .our shareholders. Also, Germany must export capital to rid itself of high currency reserves. There are already not enough shares to meet demand...