Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Butterfield, who will give the first Horblit Lecture on the History of Science, tomorrow, spoke about science's present role as a vital force in civilization and said, "Don't imagine it can go on forever." He ventured that today's science will carry on to something new and compared its present role with that of scholasticism in the Middle Ages...
...President spoke of the possibility the Berlin situation might carry the seeds of war. But he said "the risk of war is minimized if we stand firm...
...Lawyer Castro's ignoring the principle of double jeopardy caused the Havana, Santiago and National Bar Associations to protest. A defense attorney for the airmen, Carlos Peña Justiz, said the reversal could stamp Castro as "a new Napoleon in the Caribbean." Muttered Castro: "Reactionary." As he spoke, firing squads across the island were busy building the week's execution total to 30, the overall accounting...
...Critics. Switzerland's Karl Earth, the only other system builder among the leading contemporary theologians, completely rejects Tillich's coupling of existential question and religious answer. God did not wait to be asked, maintains Barth; he spoke and acted, and the whole twelve long volumes (in progress) of the Barthian system are based solidly on the record of what he said and did-the Bible. To Barth the Biblical message is "thrown like a stone" at man, not accommodated to his existential agonies. Tillich's "Unconditional" term for God, Barth has called "a frigid monstrosity...
...mass rally in Atlanta last week, Southern moderates spoke with a fervor and eloquence they often lack. Said Sylvan Meyer, 37, editor of north Georgia's Gainesville Times: "Our state leaders have failed us miserably. The doctrine of state sovereignty died at Appomattox and was reinterred at Little Rock." His applauding listeners: 1,500 parents, civic leaders and students, members of a brand-new organization of protesting moderates, HOPE, Inc. (for Help Our Public Education) and its student counterpart, SOS (Students for Open Schools...