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...Ever since the days of the Apostle Paul, Christians have been familiar with the barred window and the dungeon cell. And ever since the first Good Friday when the cock crew and Peter wept, Christians have died rather than deny their faith and save their skins. This is the strict code of the Christian prisoner, but what of the compromises in between? Last week one missionary publicly castigated another for keeping his religion but buying his freedom with falsehoods...
When Steve O'Neill became manager of the Philadelphia Phillies in midseason last year, the club was slogging along in sixth place, visibly glowering under the strict regime of Eddie Sawyer, who had managed his happy-go-lucky "Whiz Kids" to the pennant in 1950. Grown up, the Phils particularly resented Sawyer's dictum against wives at spring training, his strict curfews. Under amiable "Stout Steve" O'Neill, the Phils played the rest of the season at a .648 clip, the fastest in the league. Last week, taking up where they left off, the Phils went scooting...
Council members at first refused to challenge, but changed their minds after learning the WSP was not on the Attorney General's subversive organization list. One member has refused to meet the strict Marxist group on any grounds...
President of the HUERA Mr. Helen Maynard said the union had applied for elimination of the "three day sick pay" clause and for strict seniority, as well as for the wage increase...
...whom German Lutheranism was getting too liberal and rationalistic, and too closely bound up with the state. He and three fellow ministers built the original Concordia-a log-cabin schoolhouse in Missouri's Perry County-and set out to train a New World breed of pastors in the strict, Bible-centered Lutheranism of their conviction...