Word: parlin
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Like the Daily Double. These elements have been enough to bring Du Pont many a windfall. They came together, for example, in a narrow darkroom in the industrial area of Parlin, N.J., where Physicist R. Kingsley Blake produced Du Pont's new no-negative photographic film. Blake started out by simply trying to untangle a peculiar phenomenon that he had been observing for a few months: faint positive images that unaccountably appeared on sheets of film. He was sure that the reaction was caused by any one of countless chemicals in his photo lab-but which one? Working...
...pursuit of compromise made the conference sometimes seem more like a political convention than a church meeting, as delegates caucused in hotel corridors and committee rooms to work out approvable resolutions. In the end, conference moderates, led by such powerful Methodist figures as Lawyer Charles Parlin and the Rev. Harold Bosley of Manhattan's Christ Church, devised a number of carefully hedged stands that satisfied the South without totally alienating the North's firebrand integrationists...
...Bishop Kennedy, the genius of Methodism is uniquely displayed at a General Conference, which he describes as "democracy at its best and worst-the process of a large church trying to find its way." This year's conference, suggests Methodist Layman Charles Parlin, a Manhattan lawyer and a co-president of the World Council of Churches, "might be historic." In twelve brisk days of debate-interspersed with sessions of prayer, preaching and hymn singing-the Methodist legislators are considering petitions and commission reports that could, if accepted, help rekindle much of the church's old zeal. Among...
...making themselves 'O.K.' churches," she said, adding that they often bring "something that is not thereby the World Council's wishes." As it has grown, the council has created a flock of initial-rich branchlets with such titles as D.I.C.A.R.W.S.,*and Council Co-President Charles Parlin, a Methodist lawyer from New York, admits: "Instead of becoming structurally easier, the council is becoming structurally more difficult...
...This assembly was far more dynamic than Amsterdam in 1948 or Evanston in 1954," said Manhattan Lawyer Charles Parlin, the Methodist layman who will serve as one of the Council's presidents. "It has been an extremely serious, united effort of giving directives for work." The Council's General Secretary, Willem Visser 't Hooft (TIME cover, Dec. 8), agreed that "we have received pretty clear marching orders," although, he added cautiously, "some of them will have to be worked out a little further...