Word: majority
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major obstacle facing Senator Kennedy in his steeplechase race to the White House is that he cannot claim the support of those who would seem his greatest backers--fellow Roman Catholic politicians. The four key states in any convention will be controlled in 1960 by Catholics, all of whom have at least a slight hope for the vice-Presidential nomination. Each, of course, controls a significant block of votes, but Kennedy cannot use his greatest bargaining deal--votes in exchange for an endorsement for vice-President. A Catholic running mate for Kennedy, of course, would be out of the question...
Above all, by his academic and administrative reform, he brought about both a major change in the contemporary Harvard student's attitude towards his education and a comparable change in the attitude of the public towards the University...
Scientist Julian Huxley predicted a new, evolutionary kind of religion last week (TIME, Dec. 7), one man must have been in his mind-a Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. Just published in the U.S. is the late Father Teilhard's major work: The Phenomenon of Man (Harper; $5), and Huxley himself supplied the introduction. "A very remarkable work by a very remarkable human being," he wrote. "His influence on the world's thinking is bound to be important . . . He has forced theologians to view their ideas in the new perspective of evolution, and scientists...
...Kong because of lack of water and trained workers. Besides, there was the powerful new force of Japanese competition. But Chen Che Lee, a wealthy young Shanghai cotton manufacturer, fooled the experts. In 1946, with $1,500,000 borrowed from friends, Lee established South China Textile, Ltd., the first major textile mill in Hong Kong. Over the past decade, problems have been over come, and from Lee's daring example has grown an industry that this year will ex port $110 million worth of garments. So successful is Hong Kong as a garment center that U.S. manufacturers and labor...
...Director William Wyler's $15 million film version of Major General Lew Wallace's Biblical bestseller (1880) is not only the most expensive screen spectacle ever produced but also the best...