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Dean Bundy and J.N. Douglas Bush, Gurney Professor of English Literature, were among seven who received honorary degrees at Commencement exercises at Oberlin College yesterday...
...easygoing man. Reid claims that his bizarre beat does not affect him: "I don't have any trouble sleeping." But watching men die has made him a firm opponent of capital punishment. Says he: "I'm sure there have been at least six or seven executed for crimes they did not commit, and Lord only knows how many people died for crimes they did commit but whose punishment was too severe...
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...
...last seven years,"the Red Chinese have applied every conceivable pressure to force the International Olympic Committee to recognize them as the only representatives of China. They boycotted sessions attended by Nationalist China representatives, withdrew their athletes from events in which Nationalists were entered, finally stalked out of the I.O.C. itself. Soviet Russia and other Communist satellites added their weight. Last week, at the annual meeting in Munich, I.O.C. delegates caved in, voted to expel the Nationalists as the first step toward accepting Red China as "the representative of China." If the Nationalists wanted to reapply as representatives of Formosa...
...widespread in sport (TIME, June 17, 1957), intimated that they might be responsible for the rash of four-minute miles (the milers denied using pep pills). Though the use of pep pills has been banned for years by both the Amateur Athletic Union and the International Amateur Athletic Federation, seven of 773 college and high school coaches replying to the A.M.A.'s mail survey admitted they used pep pills on their athletic squads. Presumably, there were other users who did not admit...