Word: civilizations
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Albert Haertlein '16, Gordon McKay Professor of Civil Engineering, will serve on a six-man committee to design air raid shelters and plan protection against bombing in Massachusetts. The state Civil Defense organization selected him yesterday...
...danger of a French defeat is serious. The French have not yet completed their retreat into the Red River delta. Under the guise of "regrouping operations," they will soon abandon Moncay. Already, Moncay's French and pro-French civil population has been evacuated by sea, the Moncay airfield destroyed. The terrain held by the French is complex-a network of dikes, soggy paddy fields and island-like villages fringed with bamboo and banana trees. Inside this area (slightly larger than the Pusan beachhead held by the U.S. in Korea last August) are hidden pockets of Communist troops, in some...
...into its full flower a century after Luther "shook up the whole pattern of European theology." The Quakers were the first of this flowering, and Knox "cannot resist the impression" that there is a direct line of influence upon them from the Anabaptist movement that ended in a bloody civil uprising at Münster 18 years after Luther's Ninety-Five Theses. Early Quaker simplicity strikes Knox as "almost . . . boorishness," and he takes fastidious note of Founder George Fox's "barbarous" style of writing. But he nonetheless pictures Fox as a potent prophet...
Chaos and violence should be nothing new to Yale-in-China workers. Founded in 1901, YIC survived the 1911 revolution and prospered during the civil wars of the twenties which ultimately resulted in Chiang Kai-Shek's ascent to power...
...Vigilantly guard the peace, the borders of our country and the creative work of our people [against] . . . the bandit interventionists in Korea!" The evening before, in the Bolshoi Theater, a select audience of top-level comrades & commissars heard Politburocrat Nikolai Bulganin compare the war in Korea with the civil war in Russia when the Allies unsuccessfully intervened against the Bolsheviks. Accusing the U.S. of instigating World War III with the aim of destroying the Soviet Union, Bulganin keynoted: "The Soviet people are able to defend . . . their homeland . . . with guns in hand...