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...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). U.S. aircraft surveyed from the early experimental jet models of 1942 to the coming Dyna-Soar...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of two Russian divisions that defected during the Second World War and fought for the Nazis...
...this fine little concert, conductor Layton fulfilled the promise of his first performance this fall, and happily Paine Hall was nearly full. Perhaps now he can bring his orchestra back to the twentieth century for a while, and still get the full house he and the orchestra deserve...
...measured in pipes (105 gals.), people in stones (14 Ibs.), pickled peppers in pecks (554.84 cu. in.). For good measure, Britain's hundredweight is 112 Ibs., not 100; the pennyweight has been unrelated to the weight of any penny for a century and a half, but equals one-twentieth of an ounce. Both ounces and quarts have entirely different values in different tables, and pounds can consist either of 12 oz. (troy) or 16 oz. (avoirdupois), not to mention the pound sterling, which is 20 shillings...
...Potent Faith. But Latourette's Twentieth Century is more than a mere catalogue. Behind the facts and figures lurks his faith that human history is the story of salvation. Many of his Protestant contemporaries gloomily see the years since the French Revolution as a "post-Christian" age, in which the faith spread by the Apostles has been forced on the defensive. Looking instead at the worldwide missionary triumph of the churches, Latourette argues that "if the entire globe is taken into consideration, never had Christianity been as potent in the life of mankind as a whole...