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...current issue of the Soviet magazine Science & Life sounded a trumpet call for new zeal in the struggle against religion. "Apart from creating the material conditions necessary to have religion vanish," said Science & Life, "the Communist Party has worked tirelessly to employ skillfully these conditions to combat religious superstition." Not skillfully enough, perhaps; though the magazine proudly claims 50 million atheists for Russia back in 1935, it hazards no guess as to how many there are today in the 200 million population, reports merely that the number of believers "is continuing to dwindle." This does not mean, though, "that...
...early stories about a teen-age boy growing up in Michigan, CBS's The Seven Lively Arts this week firmly established itself as one of the season's brightest newcomers with The Revivalists, a hallelujah-breathing documentary film on militant evangelism. From the husky-voiced zeal of Billy Sunday to the polished fervor of Billy Graham, the camera caught arresting glimpses of believers throbbing with the joy of religion. A Negro named Cat-Iron Carradino croaked a hymn and plucked his guitar as he carried the message down Tin Can Alley in Natchez, Miss. The face of Negro...
...Bright on's chill October sea last week and fired new hope in a Tory Party gathered for its annual conference and glumly reflecting on a dozen by-election setbacks since Suez. Chubby, puckish Viscount Hailsham, 50, only three weeks in office, delighted the delegates with his handshaking zeal, astounded them as he splashed into the ocean for early morning dips, moved them with shamelessly orotund oratory. "Britain is still recognizably a lion among nations," he roared. "I do not believe that we have been spared in a generation from so many and great dangers to go down...
...Syria. What disturbs them most is the incalculable ingredient in Nikita Khrushchev's makeup: how far this unpredictable, risk-taking Communist boss may go in foreign adventuring, to get himself out of domestic problems. Starting with this substantial concern, the U.S. last week acted with such heavy-handed zeal that even its friends in the Middle East felt compelled to react against...
...Housing Administration. In the early postwar years, under FHA's Section 608, builders could put up middle-income housing with FHA help without tying up a large amount of capital. But in 1954 a spate of scandals broke about .builders who made windfall profits under 608. In its zeal to tighten up, the FHA overdid things. Even though the windfall profiteers were only a handful among thousands of honest builders, FHA now suspiciously administers its new 207 program, sets extremely rigid standards, digs through construction figures long after it has approved-threatens builders with future disapproval if they balk...