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True marriage and parenthood, said the committee, are areas in which the Christian is permitted freedom of twofold kind: "This means freedom from sensuality and selfishness which enslave. It also means considerable latitude of choice, when the motives are right, in regard to mutually acceptable and noninjurious means to avert or defer conception." The only controlling factor: individual conscience. God has put it up to husband and wife to decide for themselves, said the committee, "whether any one act of intercourse shall be for the enrichment or expression of their personal relationship only, or for the begetting of a child...
...motives of the non-Communist Americans in attending were a mixture of the opportunity to make meaningful contacts with uncommitted individuals, the hope of presenting a clear American viewpoint, and the curiosity to see first hand how the Soviets would run a show for 20,000. The objectives were twofold: to counter the Communist party line directed at festival participants, and to provide material opposed to the Communist's flood of propaganda both during and after the Festival...
...least 75, and possibly 100, students will work as faculty-aides next year if the Student Employment Office fulfills its current plans. The new program represents a twofold enlargement of this year's activities...
...suggested changes are twofold. The first involves new procedures for closing Senate debate by a two-thirds majority of those present after two days of debate, or by a simple majority of those present after fifteen days. The anti-filibuster drive is headed primarily by men who fear the power of Southern conservatives in blocking civil rights legislation and who are willing to abandon a long-standing Senate tradition of talkativeness to achieve their civil rights objectives...
From the beginning, President Mohammed Ayub Khan has emphasized that his aim is to improve efficiency in administration. The emphasis is twofold: (1) tackling the major problems; and (2) on service to the people. Persistent interference by locally influential, corrupt politicians which obstructed the execution of well-formulated policies has died. It is hardly relevant to criticize the new cabinet of talented and practical men on grounds of "political inexperience." Inside Pakistan, stagnation has given way to a new vitality and resignation has changed to constructive puposefulness...