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Critical Resolution. The occasion was a seven-day "consultation" on South Africa's racial problems between six representatives of the World Council of Churches and ten delegates from each of South Africa's eight Protestant Churches that are World Council members. The conference closed with a resolution highly critical of apartheid; the right to own land and to participate in the government, it said, was "part of the dignity of the adult man," there were no scriptural reasons for prohibiting mixed marriages, and there was insufficient "consultation and communication" between the races. "It is our conviction that there...
...seven-day siege of Singapore was a classic anticlimax. Cheerful communiques kept the people from knowing that the enemy was on top of them. Only by scanning the latest banking news ("The undermentioned branches will be closed until further notice") had some been able to follow the Japanese advance. With much fanfare, the retreating British blew up the causeway linking Singapore Island to the mainland. "That should stop the little bastards," muttered one officer, who neglected to notice, as the Japanese did not, that the water at low tide was only four feet deep...
...legalize the beloved Alaska tradition of betting on the exact day, hour and minute of the ice breakup on the Tanana and certain other rivers. The booze bill (soon to become law) requires saloons to close down each day between 5 a.m. and 8 a.m.. instead of 3 a.m. to 5 a.m. weekdays. The boudoir bit was altogether something different. Passed last week by the legislature, and ready for Governor William Egan's signature, was an act that entitles honor prisoners in the state prison to take seven-day furloughs, once every six months, to visit their homes...
John Calvin, born 450 years ago this year, would have been surprised at some of the subjects considered last week by his spiritual offspring. The lyist General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. wound up its seven-day meeting in Indianapolis, and by the time the last of the nearly 1,000 commissioners (delegates) went home, it was clear that the Presbyterians had covered a lot of ground. Items: ¶ In two separate resolutions the Assembly took note of the vexed question of recognizing Communist China and admitting it to the U.N., which roiled U.S. Protestant waters...
...soon as the President sent Herter's name to the Senate, Fulbright was ready to deliver. Vote for confirmation: 17 to 0 in the Foreign Relations Committee, 93 to 0 on the Senate floor. Time of confirmation: 4 hours 13 minutes, in contrast to the usual seven-day minimum...