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...five-day gathering's opening day, the Rev. Winburn T. Thomas of Pasadena, Calif., a field representative in Indonesia for U.S. mission boards, laid it on the line for the 300-odd delegates. In Asia, he said, "colonialism is a bigger issue then Communism-and white is the color of colonialism." Almost 99% of U.S. Protestant missionaries now serving overseas, said Dr. Thomas, are white men and women. "I asked the church leaders of mid-Java if they would prefer Negro or white workers, and their decision was unanimously against our present practice of sending almost exclusively white missionaries...
...dropped Deputy Superintendent of Schools George Ebey (TIME, July 27) as too "controversial," even though there was never any evidence that he was a Communist or any question of his loyalty. Postmen knew that much of the protest against Ebey came from local women who had once helped prevent Pasadena's ex-Superintendent of Schools Willard E. Goslin ("A very controversial figure") from speaking in Houston. They had also helped force the schools to ban a U.N. essay contest. But when Newsman O'Leary began his spadework, he found the digging hard...
During 15 years of work with the police and with insurance companies, William Wirich Harper of Pasadena, physicist-consultant on auto accidents, has investigated 3,000 smashups. He has come to a basic conclusion: "We have spent too damn much time worrying about the cause of accidents. It's time we started worrying about the cause of injuries...
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...Pasadena, Calif., Fortune Gordien, competing in a John Muir College track and field meet, broke his own official world mark in the discus throw with a prodigious toss of 194 ft. 6 in.-bettering the old record...