Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moment of Revelation. A onetime factory hand born in the slums, Delbecque holds above all to one political tenet: the infallibility of General Charles de Gaulle. In 1946. when De Gaulle first called for constitutional reform, twice-wounded Resistance Fighter Delbecque rushed around northern France inveighing against the constitution of the Fourth Republic. "Actually," he recalled last week, "I had never even read the constitution. I was against it because De Gaulle said...
...last week began the 3,000,000-member United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.-a merger of the 2,800,000-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) with the 300,000-member United Presbyterian Church of North America. The new body, the fourth major merger of this ecumenical century,* is the fourth largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.-after the Methodists, Southern Baptists, and the Negro denomination titled National Baptists, U.S.A. The merger was originally intended to include the Southern Presbyterians, but they withdrew from negotiations three years ago under pressure from the ultraconservative churches of the Deep South...
Dodging in and out of fluffy cumulus clouds, a Maryland Air National Guard T-33 jet trainer frisked around above the green valleys of Maryland and northern Virginia on a routine flight. In the cockpit was the pilot, Captain Julius R. McCoy, 34, of the Maryland Air National Guard, and his passenger Donald Chalmers, 26, Baltimore law student and National Guard Pfc., up on his first flight. At 8,500 ft. over western Maryland the T-Bird headed into a thin cloud in a steep right turn, slipped out of the cloud and sheared into the side of a Capital...
When Laos' two Communist-run northern provinces were integrated into the little kingdom last December, Laotians and many foreign observers remained relaxed. The Pathet Lao's leader, Prince Souphanouvong, was no Communist but a royal prince and a devout Buddhist, they argued; his followers were few and badly organized, and their program in any case was moderate: peace, unity, neutrality and cooperation with all nations, including Communist China and the neighboring Viet Minh. Only a few pessimists feared that by the general election of 1960 the Pathet Lao-which renamed itself the Neo Lao Hak Xat or Patriotic...
...rewards for the deepsea plunger. Swanson finds, are great and varied: "In northern waters the general atmosphere of the sea is rather somber, a deep mystical green, like a dark cathedral. In tropical waters the colors are overwhelming, like a gaudy festival." Swanson has discovered that underwater one can work over, around and sometimes under the subject matter. "The problems,'' he likes to muse, ''may be comparable to those man will have when he begins to draw in outer space...