Word: ymca
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...greatest charm is big-eyed Rita Tushingham, fresh from A Taste of Honey and Girl With Green Eyes, but here much more the comedienne. She plays Nancy, an open mouthed arrival in London who asks everyone for directions to the YMCA. She ends up instead with three bachelors...
...also the new YMCA on a large site, allowed through urban renewal to expand out of a storefront...
...employed. (Low income people do not work in factories, but in office buildings today. Welfare is distributed to the disadvantaged from office buildings.) In Washington Park, the first of Mayor Collins' residential projects, you see Boston's poverty-plagued Negro minority building new housing, doing rehabilitation, supporting a new YMCA. On the skyline from anywhere you can see the 52 story Pru built privately on a former railroad yard, and the 27 story Bitish building built privately on a parking lot. This is the more visible part of the 36 per cent per year increase in construction adding...
...about the time his future chief was serving in the Pacific, Sorensen graduated from Lincoln High School and entered the University of Nebraska on a Regents scholarship to take the pre-law curriculum. He chaired the mock United Nations convention, the campus constitutional convention, and the University YMCA, while continuing to follow high school interest in debating, drama, and the band. In 1949 he entered the University's law school, edited the Nebraska Law Review, and lobbied during spare time in the state legislature for a Fair Employment Practices Committee. He still managed to spend enough time studying to graduate...
...Dutch-born Protestant leader prefers to think of himself as simply "an international Christian worker." He has never been anything else. Thirty-eight years ago the American ecumenist John R. Mott picked Visser't Hooft out of the State University of Leyden and made him the secretary of the YMCA's World Alliance. Two years later Visser't Hooft became head of the World Student Christian Federation. When the 1937 Oxford Conferences of the Life and Work and Faith and Order Movements resulted in the establishment of a Provisional Committee to set up the World Council of Churches, Visser...