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...will interest many a man in the pew as well as in the pulpit. In The Holy Spirit and Modern Thought (Harper; $4.50), Anglican Canon Lindsay Dewar, a Fellow of King's College, London, concisely surveys the history of thought about the Holy Ghost from the Old Testament concept of ruach, the "breath" or spirit of God, to his own arresting hypothesis that the Holy Spirit works through the unconscious with extrasensory perception...
...leave me no choice but to point out that Hindus find the Biblical concept of God as a vengeful, peeking, bumbling fellow who botched his job so badly that he created man imperfect, then cursed the whole race of man for the same imperfection, and could find no better way out of the dilemma than to allow his "son" to die a tortured death even more absurd...
...from Jamaica Bay and what was once a golf course, Idlewild has become a vast, gleaming concrete-and-glass tiara (see color} covering 4,900 acres and representing an investment of $330 million. Much more than merely a big new airport, it typifies a whole new jet age concept: a self-contained airport city, so complete that it has two dramatic societies and an animal-port where anything from parakeets (50? a day) to lions ($5 a day) can be boarded...
...Dulles International Airport, due to open near Washington, D.C. in 1961, is radically different in concept. Unlike most airports, it will have no passageways reaching out onto the apron to detract from its lofty, templelike terminal designed by Architect Eero Saarinen. Instead of jets coming up to terminal fingers, passengers will simply walk into giant "mobile lounges" that will move them out to the jets...
...vote, the court struck down Judge Layton's cautious plan and ordered full integration by the fall of 1961. Despite the border state's emotional links with the South, wrote Chief Judge John Biggs Jr., "we believe the citizens of Delaware have become more accustomed to the concept of desegregated schools...