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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trouble with 25-year-old Georges Rapin was that from childhood he could do no wrong, and knew it. His father was a wealthy Paris engineer who occasionally chided him for flunking courses, but at 13 Georges gave up on school entirely. At 18, he had his own convertible and stayed out until nearly dawn every morning...
...Parts in 1 Billion Billion. Lyttleton and Bondi belong to the British school of cosmology, which holds that matter is being created continuously in the form of hydrogen atoms appearing in empty space. Each hydrogen atom consists of one electron and one proton, and physicists have generally assumed that the positive electrical charge of the proton is exactly equal to the negative charge of the electron. Lyttleton and Bondi point out that this is only an assumption...
Robert B. McNeill was on the way through law school at the University of Alabama when he switched to Richmond's Union Theological Seminary. But for Alabama-born Seminarian McNeill, the Kingdom of Heaven on Earth had separate entrances marked WHITE and COLORED; as a member of the basketball team he refused to play against Richmond's Negro College, Virginia Union, and at an inter-seminary conference he balked at sitting down to lunch with the Negro delegates...
Imperative Demand. Two years ago, McNeill upset some 50 members of his influential, 1,200-member First Presbyterian Church by writing a magazine article calling for "creative contact" between whites and Negroes in the South-"representation of both groups on city councils, grand juries, school boards, medical societies, ministerial associations and other public agencies." Fortnight ago, he wrote a note in the church bulletin urging parishioners to read without prejudgment an article by a Columbus newspaperman saying how much better the racial situation had become in Columbus...
...president for the coming year, the delegates elected Dr. Herbert Gezork, 58, onetime leader of the German Baptist Youth Movement who fled Germany in 1936 just before the Nazis closed in on him, is now president of Baptist-run Andover Newton Theological School. Delegates went on record against...