Word: tending
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indian Case. Nehru often says that the destiny of Asia must depend upon the friendship of India and Red China. He attaches tremendous significance to his belief that India and Red China share common problems-poverty, overpopulation and "white" imperialism -and must tend toward one another because of them. He never chooses publicly to mention their basic difference: India goes in for British-style parliamentary democracy, while Red China rules by terror and command. Only when Red China shows more than a passing interest in what Nehru considers to be Indian interests (e.g., Nepal, Burma) does Nehru react like...
...cities of offshore oil grow out into the Gulf, they will tend to lose social contact with the distant shore. This is a serious morale problem, and the oil com panies are worried about it. One answer might be airplane or helicopter service to fly the men to their jobs; already some of the rigs have heliports on them...
...Christianity. To be on the safe side, a Haitian is inclined to bow to both Catholic saints and voodoo gods. Catholic denunciations of this practice seem to him nothing more than natural loyalty to one's own group of interceders. The Baptist missions' 3,000-odd converts tend to make their break with voodoo complete...
...rough and tumble competition of the trucking industry, Trucker Richard R. Riss knows that strong companies tend to get stronger and weak ones to die. Says he: "We've got to keep getting stronger." Trucker Riss is already pretty strong. His Riss & Co., Inc. is one of the world's longest trucking lines (37,000 miles of routes between Denver and the East Coast), the best moneymaker in the business (1953 net before taxes: $2,882,919), and the fifth largest in terms of total operating revenues ($29,114,678). Last week Riss made his bid to become...
...Churches meets in Evanston, 111 . Main theme of the Assembly: "Christ, the Hope of the World." European Protestant theologians, it is expected, will insist that the Hope is only in the strictly Biblical Second Coming of Christ and the End of the World, a theory that ecumenical Americans tend to leave to the fundamentalists and Adventist sects. Against this view many U.S. theologians will probably maintain that the Hope is in the gradual and practical Christian betterment of the world. In the current issue of the interdenominational quarterly, Religion in Life, pessimistic Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr asserts that the choice...