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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Significant Step. As with Chaplain Hedley, Bishop Pike's main motive in performing the ordination was to witness to church unity. There have been protests. The high-church Protestant Episcopal weekly, the Living Church, criticized the ordination as super-Protestantism. Old Testament Professor (and Methodist) John Otwell of the Pacific School of Religion sounded off in a long letter in the Christian Century: "Putting it quite simply, it would seem that Dr. Hedley is now neither fish nor fowl. He has impugned his ordination as a Methodist, yet he remains merely a Methodist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Episcopal Methodist | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

...employees in Holland, 114,000 in the rest of the world. It thus rates after General Electric as the largest employer in its field, generates 12% of Holland's industrial export income by turning out scores of products including Christmas tree lights, Norelco electric shavers, television sets, super-powered electron microscopes, hospital equipment and musical recordings. At the drop of an order, the company can overhaul a complete national telephone system, as it did for Argentina, build a 160 million-volt cyclotron, as it did for the University of Paris, or light and wire for sound the Acropolis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: The Light of Holland | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...honey, and carrying her pet tortoise, Fangio by name, who slept on a hot-water bottle. Since no one paced her, her time was not recognized. Undaunted, Vegetarian Moore snorted, in the language of the true eccentric: "Men just can't compete with me. I'm super...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: On the Road | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

From the smart sidewalks of Belgrave Square to the teeming front stoops of South London's slums, an English baby is known by the carriage he keeps. Massive, super-sprung, often a flashy lilac in color, for the Mayfair nanny and the working-class "mum" alike, the Big Pram has become in postwar Britain a symbol of status akin to the automobile in U.S. oneupmanship. But at least one winter baby in England next year is due for a hand-me-down. As Buckingham Palace prepared for the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Pink or Blue? | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

...this sea of celluloid, a masterful director, William (Wuthering Heights, The Best Years of Our Lives') Wyler, has fished a whale of a picture, the biggest and the best of Hollywood's super-spectacles. The story of Ben-Hur is reasonably faithful to the general's stirring "Tale of the Christ." Prince Judah Ben-Hur (Charlton Heston), a rich Jew born about the same time as Christ, falls out with his childhood friend Messala (Stephen Boyd), commander of the Roman garrison in Jerusalem, who demands that Ben-Hur inform against other Jewish patriots. When Ben-Hur refuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Nov. 30, 1959 | 11/30/1959 | See Source »

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