Word: coming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mobs of black-shirted Africans shouting demands for independence. The King was jostled but kept smiling as the police used tear gas to control the crowd. That night, he broadcast an appeal to the nation: "I am trying, above all, to serve your own interests. The time has come to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of the Congolese, and at the same time avoid the disappointments of uncontrolled evolution . . . Belgium spontaneously and generously calls the Congo to a near independence." One reply, scrawled with chalk on a Stanleyville wall: "Vive le Rot Kasavubu, Au Revoir Baudouin...
...With 50% more freshmen seeking admission by 1965, he explained, "colleges will be more and more careful not to permit a student to remain unless he is working at some level close to his top capacity." Predicted Cole: "The underachiever program may be considered the foreshadowing of things to come, an experiment that in one form or another will be widely tried...
...hill through olive groves, past herds of goat and sheep, come the worshipers on Christmas Eve to the quiet Judean town. Peasants walk to Bethlehem wearing medieval costumes, silk-hatted diplomats swirl into Manger Square in black limousines. And in entering the Church of the Nativity, all bend low to pass through the tiny door called The Needle...
Such mechanical extravagance became particularly popular in Germany. A gilded brass Krippe was presented in about 1589 to Elector Christian I by his wife, Sophia. When wound up, a globe on top opens, showing God surrounded by angels; a wall below slides back to reveal the manger, angels come down from heaven to music, Joseph rocks the cradle, the ox and ass rise from their knees, and the shepherds march in, followed by the kings...
...Festival of Seven Lessons and Carols (NBC, 10-11 a.m.). From Washington National Cathedral come Scripture and readings and carols, presided over by the Rt. Rev. Angus Dun, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of Washington, and Dr. Francis B. Sayre, dean of the cathedral...