Word: solemnizing
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...airport ramp. As local officials rush forward, the door swings open, and out pops a wavy-haired, rather pudgy man (185 Ibs. on a 5-ft. 8-in. frame), with the unmistakable aura of a true celebrity. Adjusting his glasses and his smile, the visitor speaks in a solemn baritone, the scholarly English sentences laced, to the puzzlement of some, with the Germanic accents of his native Fürth. But the audiences listen carefully. The hopes, fears and future of his own country and the world may well depend on whatever is about to transpire...
...nation in Western Europe gets along better with China than does France. Last week, though, the Peking government issued a solemn warning to Paris about possible grave consequences for future relations between the two countries...
...Making solemn charges of false teachings, board members of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis last month suspended the school's moderate president, the Rev. John H. Tietjen, and sparked an angry walkout of most of the seminary's students and faculty (TIME, Feb. 4). Last week, using the walkout as grounds for dismissal, the seminary board fired 46 members of the faculty and the executive staff, then promptly appointed seven new professors and 33 part-time faculty members who will be on call to teach the remaining students...
...oriental" cells were left naked, without blankets or light. "Try it," she tells a group of students. "Go into the cell, and I'll close the door, and you pretend you have to stay in there alone, 24 hours a day." After five minutes, the kids emerge, solemn-faced and committed to lives of virtue. Next, Sara points down ten stone steps to the "dungeon of Alcatraz." That was where the prison authorities would try to break a man, she explains, "when he was still able to say, 'I am me.' His hands were manacled...
...Solemn assurances have a way of evaporating under pressure in Richard Nixon's White House, as Prosecutor Jaworski discovered to his dismay last week. With Nixon pursuing yet another twist in his survival strategy;this time one of delay and resistance to continuing demands for Watergate evidence -a new clash loomed between President and prosecutor. Echoing Archibald Cox, the special prosecutor Nixon had fired last October for refusing to desist from pursuing presidential evidence, Jaworski said that he will not hesitate to go into court to get whatever White House documents and tapes he considers vital to his investigation...