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...fact is that U.S. officials have little to smile about when they look at the burgeoning Soviet space program. The faltering U.S. effort has been plagued by repeated delays of the space shuttle (now scheduled for launch no earlier than next March), while the Soviets have been forging steadily onward, setting the stage for permanent occupation of space...
Americans saw their lives as an upward march toward the light. Or, as Columbia University Historian Henry Graff says, "they pictured America riding a train going up a mountain. It went round and round, but always onward and upward. The only interruptions were occasional tunnels-wars and depressions. It would suddenly go dark and then the light would stream in again...
Conferences such as Urbana Onward, one of over 100 follow-up meetings to Urbana, a convention held in December and attended by 16,500 students, are the best publicized, but not the only evidence of a snowballing movement that is drawing young Christians to missionary work. Successful campus student groups, such as the predominantly Protestant Harvard-Radcliffe Christian Fellowship (HRCF), also fuel this revived enthusiasm. The resurgence of the missionary committment is best supported by and most fervently related by students themselves...
...grossly oversimplified view of the religious and political situation of every established country in the world. In a section titled, "Points for Prayer", Johnstone says of Saudi Arabia, "The vast oil wealth is now being used to propogate Islam all over the world." A pamphlet available at Urbana Onward also rails against Islam, calling the Muslim world "perhaps the largest stronghold of Satan to refuse the Savior...
Before her speech, Lum said gatherings such as Urbana, which drew about 16,500 college students and missionaries, and its extension, Urbana Onward, give participants "an intelligent presentation of what's going on around the world with missionary work...