Word: stating
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...club expects as many as 50 participants in this Sunday's meet, which it sponsors annually for all the sports car clubs in this part of the state. One member pointed out that although it won last year's meet, no one who placed then is still in the running this year. The fall meet last year attracted 55 participants...
...totalitarian state, wrote Bishop Dibelius, has no claim to the Biblical status of "the powers that be." In a totalitarian system "there is no right in the Christian sense of the word . . . Paul's words are set aside." Encountering a speed-limit sign along a highway in the free world, wrote Dibelius, he would not hesitate to slow down. But not in East Germany. First, because the speed limit would not be applied equally to ordinary citizens and Communist functionaries and because the slowdown would be made necessary, in all likelihood, by some immoral purpose, such as starving...
...State backed up church with its own sanctions. In England until 1823 a suicide's body was buried at a crossroads with a stake through the heart; until 1882 it was buried at night. All the property of a suicide was confiscated until 1870. Today in England, suicide is still considered at law a felony (both in England and the U.S. an attempted suicide is a misdemeanor...
VOLKSWAGEN STOCK SALE has been agreed upon by West German federal government and state of Lower Saxony, will end a ten-year ownership dispute. Plan calls for 60% of shares to be sold to the public, 20% to be held by Bonn, 20% by Lower Saxony. To prevent majority control by a single group and to spread ownership as widely as possible, the $25 shares will be rationed five to an investor. To attract lower-income customers, initial sale will be restricted to German citizens making less than $4,000 a year...
Thoroughbred Race of the Week (CBS, 4-4:30 p.m.). The Garden State, world's richest (about $300,000) race...