Word: personalize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tillon's new policy of selective assimilation will not make the Congo a democracy, for the government, in the person of the Little Lion, fully intends to retain "control through veto." Yet in the absence of a white-dominated parliament, benevolent despotism in the Congo may do more than some African democracies to bring peace and some kind of assured future for Africa's blacks and whites...
...Just 14 hours and 37 minutes after she waded into the water at Cape Griz-Nez, France, blonde, freckle-faced Marilyn Bell, 17, staggered ashore beneath the white cliffs of Dover. The pretty Canadian schoolgirl, first person ever to swim the icy waters of Lake Ontario (TIME, Sept. 20), was the youngest ever to swim the English Channel...
...were his former schoolmates at Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in Minneapolis. After examining a series of sermons by Pastor Crist, a fiveman investigating committee ordered him to trial on 14 counts of deviation, centering in his "use and interpretation of the Scriptures, and in his teaching concerning the person and work of Christ...
...Judging American Sunday schools and finding them wanting, Dr. F. Eppling Reinartz, secretary of the United Lutheran Church in America, told the International Sunday School Convention in Cleveland that Sunday schools 1) do not "typically appraise the worth of a person" by Christian values, 2) foster a "shallow and confused" theology, 3) "do not reckon with . . . social resistance to righteousness...
Most of these flatten out, stop growing and become dependent on some person or institution. A really small percentage be come aggressive and delinquent. "At the turn of the century, communities had to cope with exactly the same types of youth crimes as we have today, and proportionately as often. And that was ... in a day of no mechanization, no easy communications and transportation, no radio, no television, no movies, no comics, no sight method of teaching reading, no world wars...