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Though such efforts often seem dismaying, in a way they are the inevitable fruits of American and European success in the last 20 years-a testament to how well the restoration of the European's national identity has succeeded...
...Christians who witness to their faith by how they live, not what they say. This kind of witness most often produces converts to new, small and struggling churches, whose members have a natural zeal to bring in people to share both the burden and the joy. The conversion success of the Mormons (a 7.7% growth rate last year) and the Southern Baptists (374,418 baptisms in 1964) may be due partly to their custom of spawning churchlets as rapidly as possible. Says Dr. Glen E. Braswell of the Colorado Baptist General Convention, which has organized 100 new churches...
First to fit all the new techniques together was Bell Telephone Laboratories, which built Telstar I, and had it launched at its own expense in July 1962. Circling in a comparatively low elliptical orbit, 600 to 3,500 miles above the earth, Telstar was a striking success; it relayed the first live TV picture (a view of the American flag) across the Atlantic to receiving stations in England and France. Telephone talk over Telstar was as clear as if the speakers were only blocks apart...
...economic success of Japan today reminds many Asians of the pre-World War II build-up, and the less successful nations are both fearful and jealous of Japan's growing power. Their reluctance to accept Japanese leadership was subtly expressed when most governments politely rejected the Japanese peace corps proposal; it was expressed more dramatically when Japan began negotiations to establish diplomatic relations with Korea, and mobs rioted in Seoul for five days to protest President Chung Ree Park's friendly response...
Yale, whose depth doesn't begin to compare with Harvard's, should have little success in the lower positions. Crimson captain Peckham, Richie and Brian Davis ought to win at four, five, and six, respectively...