Word: reformations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kennedy added that "unless we make a total commitment to real, not imaginary, land reform and to the elimination of corruption, this war can never...
...draft reform resolutions passed by the 44 deans--including J. Peterson Elder of Harvard's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences--will be sent to what Elder calls "the appropriate officials in Washington." Maybe the deans' decisions will come to the attention of the National Security Council--consisting of the President, Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Director of the Office of Emergency Planning--which will recommend draft reforms to President Johnson early next year...
...second reform is an end to general deferment of graduate students. "The national security transcends the interest of any individual or group of individuals," the deans said. This would prevent students who can afford higher education from flocking to graduate schools as a privileged sanctuary from the draft...
...Labor an overwhelming 146-seat majority in Commons. Frail and diffident, timid in crowds and a mediocre public speaker, he seemed an unlikely leader for such a challenging moment. He surprised everyone by proceeding to direct a "bloodless revolution" the likes of which Britain had not experienced since the Reform Bill of 1832 created the modern Parliament. Attlee's Laborites set up an entire social security system and welfare state in Britain, and joggled the underpinning of Britain's free-enterprise system by nationalizing the huge steel and coal industries, the trucking companies, railroads and airlines...
...mood of the two gatherings was markedly different. Shrouded in secrecy, the bishops at the synod have so far been debating issues that are relatively far removed from the real concerns of most Catholics: reform of canon law and doctrinal aberrations. So far, the most concrete result of the synod has been a suggestion to create an international theological commission that would review questions regarding doctrine...