Word: oct
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Catholic, but I was extremely glad to see the tasteful way in which TIME, Oct. 20 reported the Pope's demise. I think it was disgusting the way others reported it-as if it were a football game or some other play-by-play contest...
...shocked to hear the news of a woman's being considered for ordination in the Lutheran Church. Britta Olen says she's going to Africa to preach the word of God [Oct. 13]; yet she is doing exactly what the Bible forbids-how is she going to explain this to the natives...
Congratulations on your Oct. 13 review of the sculpture of Jean Arp. His work is not only modern but eternal as well. His is definitely some of the freest, loveliest art I've ever seen...
Perhaps Mr. Richard M. Alpher, who wrote [Oct. 6] about making "your stupid Southerners stupider," should come South to school to learn the proper use of the comparative form of the word "stupid." How can we come to mutual understanding when we have such people, who are blatant, ungracious, prejudiced and ignorant...
...Moslems. The Lord Mayor served up a banquet of stewed peanuts, and one paramount chief-His Highness James Okosi II of the Onitsha-fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to ride the escalator at the Charing Cross underground station. In the end, the Nigerians got what they had come for: on Oct. 1, 1960, the largest (373,250 sq. mi.) of Britain's remaining colonial territories would get its independence (TIME. Nov. 3). But behind the scenes the conference had revealed ominous signs of trouble to come...