Word: saviors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meaning of 'salt of the earth'-that everyone becomes salt." Some churches have voluntarily pruned the names of nonworshiping Sunday golfers from their roles of "active" members in a much-neglected procedure called maintenance of the rolls. In Washington, D.C., the nondenominational Church of the Savior requires prospective worshipers to take a two-year course of study in the Bible and Christian principles, has accepted only 150 full-fledged members in 16 years...
Died. Charles Francis Potter, 76, founder of the First Humanist Society of New York, a onetime Baptist minister who believed that the true savior was man instead of God. crusaded nationwide for birth control and euthanasia; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Self-Seen Savior. More than half of the Saxon Report's proposals were welcomed by bankers as progressive, overdue reforms. Among them are proposals to cut back reserve requirements to 10% of net demand deposits (now at 16½% for city banks and 12% for country banks), thereby releasing an estimated $5 billion in new lending power, and to increase the present limit on bank loans to a single customer...
Whether they like it or not, U.S. bankers have on their hands a man who sees him self as their savior. Says he: "The commercial banking system needs rescuing...
Barry Goldwater is many things to many people: a bugaboo to the liberals, a savior to the conservatives, and a man of parts to the compilers of biographies. But no one ever thought of him as a TV critic -until last week. Aware that Newton Minow got a lot of acreage simply by calling TV a "vast wasteland," Goldwater rared back his onager at a Greek-American dinner in Chicago and let the rocks fly at U.S. television. "Have you looked at your TV set lately?" he asked the audience. "What wallowing in self-pity! What vast and contorted expressions...