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...Katanga province, 15,000 ex-gendarmes of ousted Secessionist Moise Tshombe have vanished into the bush; roaming bands of them stage highway robberies and raid villages to guzzle the local beer stocks. The 30,000-man Congolese army, whose 1960 mutiny ignited the civil war, has produced a nucleus of disciplined officers, thanks to its spunky commander, General Joseph Mobutu; no longer are unarmed civilians shot down at random in Elisabethville...
...doctrine of justification by faith alone was the keystone of the Reformation. Although modified in various ways by Calvinists and Anabaptists, justification by faith was accepted by every Protestant church. In the earliest Reformation confessions, Lutheran Theologian Werner Elert sums up, justification is "the nucleus; in the later ones it is the central point; in the most recent ones it is the assumption that no longer can be called into question." But at Helsinki, justification and its meaning for modern man came in for some severe questioning. "It is an open secret," charged Dr. Gerhard Gloege of Bonn University, "that...
Despite its gimmicky title and selfconscious promotion campaign ("Why Hud?"), the film is on the level, and the four principal actors-Newman, Neal, Douglas, and de Wilde-are so good that they might well form the nucleus of a cinematic repertory company. The point of the picture is as dry and nihilistic as a Panhandle dust storm. Once, when Douglas is berating his son, de Wilde asks: "Why pick on Hud, Grandpa? Nearly everybody around town is like...
...reception honoring Miss McNamara was part of the seventh annual Urban Design Conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The theme of this two-day conference is "The Shopping Center as a Nucleus of Inter-City Activity...
...nuclei, the scientists found two K mesons that were the decay products of an even more ephemeral particle. It has a life span of just 2/1 0,000th of a billionth of a billionth of a second-or just long enough to travel a few widths of an atomic nucleus at the speed of light. But its discovery carries the curious and unpredictable importance of all successful basic research. Now there is a little less strangeness in the whirligig, subatomic world...