Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...this liturgical movement has come a demand for the altar-centered church. In 1942 Roman Catholic St. Mark's in Burlington, Vt. experimented with placing the sanctuary with altar at the crossing of nave and transepts, thus making it visible from three sides. In 1948 the Episcopalians at St. Clement's in Alexandria, Va. placed the altar facing banks of pews. Rector Darby Wood Betts argued that "the Church is first and foremost a family called into being by its Father which is God. Therefore we sit facing one another, rather than looking at the back...
...influence of U.S. television, books and magazines. Last week, in deadly earnest, a three-man Royal Commission on Publications-Canada's equivalent of a U.S. congressional investigation-was sounding the same theme. But along with its concern for Canadian culture, the commission had an unconcealed economic spur: a demand by the Canadian magazine industry for government protection from U.S. competition...
...nation's oldest colleges (founded 1696), tiny, coeducational St. John's last year got 1,400 inquiries, could admit only 120 freshmen. It now has 277 students, next year will hit its avowed limit of 300. The obvious demand tempts St. John's to colonize the rest of the U.S.: "We think our kind of education should be offered to more people," Weigle says...
With this impetus, hotels for oldsters are springing up from New York to Florida. There is Springvale-on-the-Hudson, with 160 terraced garden apartments, in Westchester County, N.Y., now being expanded to 375 units to keep up with demand. Rents start at $89.50 a month. The North Cape May (NJ.) Homes, a development of houses in a resort area, is selling at prices up to $11,000. Orange Gardens, in Kissimmee, Fla., has 215 houses at prices...
...market, the Government also agreed to buy up to 54,000 tons a year for five years, beginning in 1959, of Harvey's primary aluminum output for U.S. strategic stockpiles. Since the reduction plant's capacity is only 60,000 tons a year, this was a healthy demand-cushion for Harvey. In 1959 the company asked the U.S. to buy only 19,500 tons, this year will offer only 12,000 tons...