Word: impactions
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...event, the impact of last week's decision was nothing compared to that of 1962. Quite clearly, one reason was the Supreme Court's much more careful disclaimers. But just as clearly, in the interim between 1962 and last week, there had been some meditating on the subject. The top policymaking board of the National Council of Churches may have expressed it best when, anticipating the Supreme Court decision a few days before it was handed down, it said: "Neither true religion nor good education is dependent upon the devotional use of the Bible in the public school...
...news was not unexpected, but that did not dampen its revolutionary impact. After 51 months of meetings, labor and management agreed on a 13-week paid sabbatical vacation once every five years (on a rotating basis) for all hourly workers in the top half of the seniority ranks at each steel company. In all of U.S. industry, only the canmakers have even a roughly similar agreement, and Dave McDonald has been trying to get one from the steelmakers for seven years...
...Even if this extra twist does not come off, the duo flight once again proves that Russia is at least two years ahead of the U.S. in space, and moreover, knows how to woo the world's females. Stated purpose of the Valery-Valentina feat: to study the impact of space "on the organism of a man and a woman...
...February. "The revolution has started," said one of the arsonists as he watched the flames. They then sent a communique to Montreal newspapers declaring their mission: "To completely destroy, by systematic sabotage, all the symbols of colonial institutions." From arson the band moved to bombing-the creation of public impact by dynamite. FLQ targets were such "colonial" institutions as armories, Royal Canadian Mounted Police and army buildings. On April 20 an army recruiting center nightwatchman was killed when he attempted to remove a bomb planted in a garbage can outside the building. Four weeks later a Canadian army bomb expert...
...increasingly religionless world Christians are becoming once again, in the Biblical phrase, "strangers and exiles." This can be well and good, says Marty. The beliefs of Protestant churches have, in the U.S., formed the basis for a "consensus religion," which now has lost its impact: it is like faded wallpaper, visible everywhere but hardly noticed. Change is needed for the church to become once more a vital spiritual force...