Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last spring's Memorial Church controversy stemmed more from a general feeling that "a false direction" was being adopted by the Pusey administration than from concern over specific issues, Franklin L. Ford, professor of History and Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Lowell House, told the Congregational-Presbyterian Youth Fellowship last night...
...hours the five women and seven men on the Nebraska jury struggled with their anguishing problem: what to do with soft-cheeked Caril Ann Fugate, 15, who accompanied bowlegged Badman Charles Starkweather, 19, on a ten-murder spree last spring (TIME, Feb. 10). Had Caril Ann, whose own mother, stepfather and half sister were among the victims, been a willing accomplice, as the prosecution maintained, and as Witness Starkweather, brought to the court from his death cell, testified? Or, as the defense claimed, had she been Starkweather's terrified and unwilling hostage...
Checking last spring on the 1960 presidential preferences of Republican voters, the Gallup poll found Vice President Richard Nixon the far-and-away leader, with 64% against only 9% for the runner-up, California's Senator William Knowland. Checking again last week, in the wake of the 1958 elections, the pollsters found a far more imposing Nixon roadblock in New York's Governor-elect Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller. The new listing...
...women) of Tokyo and was the first non-Catholic to become president of the students' committee. She met Prince Akihito at the mountain resort of Karuizawa, where the Shodas have a summer villa, and beat him at tennis, 6-1. Said Akihito later: "She overwhelmed me." This spring Michiko joined the Tokyo Lawn Tennis Club and in May won the club's Crown Prince Cup in a tournament, while Prince Akihito looked on and applauded. She and the prince have been together since, but never alone...
More to Come. Indication that still further increase in the college is in the offing-probably next spring-is to be found in the Pope's failure so far to name new cardinals in Asia or Africa, where the growth of nationalism is presenting the church with some of its thorniest problems and greatest opportunities. It is also considered likely that, in addition to Boston's Richard J. Gushing and Philadelphia's John F. O'Hara, Pope John will name more cardinals in the U.S.-almost certainly in Chicago, the largest U.S. archdiocese of all, whose...