Word: code
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BIRTH CONTROL. "Some Protestants speak of birth control as a positive virtue. They are hurt and perhaps humiliated that their code of personal morality in this matter is held to be grossly wrong by their Catholic friends. The Catholic Church views this practice as contrary to the natural law, that is, to the law of human reason itself. The birth-control question is only a part of her total philosophical and theological view of the right relations between husband and wife...
...better Protestant billing to the Council of Churches' campaign to inform producers about Protestantism. One lost battle of the campaign: the council appealed to ministers for film scripts, got several and rejected them all. The flaw: "They would never get the seal of approval of the Production Code Administration, for in part (e.g., by portraying pastors bossed around by church-board members) they show the Protestant religion in a very bad light...
Textbook. In Havant, England, the local Road Safety Council announced that it had available a copy of the British Highway Code in Braille...
High Capacity, Low Code. In three nightlong sorties through the neon-lit gathering places of the hillbillies, Norma Lee found that "the ironclad code of the hills permits no meddling from outsiders...
...send their children to school. Even more alarming to authorities, said Reporter Browning, is the parents' "rebellious resistance" to immunization shots and other elementary health measures. Chicago's polio outbreak last year was "centered in Southern white migrant areas." Said Miss Browning: "They have the lowest moral code, if any, of any [group], the biggest capacity for liquor and the most savage and vicious tactics when drunk, which is most of the time." Police say that they would need 2,000 extra officers to cope with hillbilly crime; educators have urged special grade-less schools for their children...