Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TIME has written well about an American version of such an "esoteric sect." I sympathize with this sect's impatience regarding slow-moving American Church reform and renewal but not with its attempt to shape the Church according to its own fancy...
Ever since Charles de Gaulle served his eviction notice on the North Atlantic Alliance last March, NATO officers have been frantically trying to find a new home for Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, now handsomely based near Paris. Belgium was a convenient alternative, but its government vetoed SHAPE'S suggestion that Brussels be the site. The capital, it seemed, had no desire to become a prime military target for Soviet missiles. Besides, argued the Belgians, Brussels was already overcrowded, and the sudden appearance of the SHAPE staffers and their families would be certain to drive up the cost...
...Strikes had been called before in the Central Valley, several in the thirties, and more recently in Borrego Springs and nearby Bakersfield. But none of these previous strikes had been long-lived. Some had been violent, but all had ended with the farm worker in at least as bad shape as before...
...disrupt local economies. Necessary as the U.S. military presence is in Asia now, few Asian leaders are very happy about it-or want it to continue indefinitely in the future. Their sentiments spring from pride and from fears that massive American garrisons will destroy traditional cultural values and unduly shape local political decisions. "There is a feeling among Asians," says Edwin Reischauer, former U.S. Ambassador to Japan, "that they should be running their own affairs without being led and pushed by us. They want to be sure they are deciding their own fate and that we, as outsiders, are only...
...grains when examined-more than it should have, considering the amount of metal left in Connally's body. The nose of the spent bullet was not blunted, and several medical men testified that it could not have done so much damage to Connally and emerged in such good shape...