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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bishops heard all week. Outside the closed-door sessions, leaders of ten dissident Catholic organizations, both clerical and lay, joined together in a loose coalition to present the bishops with a "People's Agenda," a grab bag of 41 wildly varied demands for church and social reform. Among them: that the church allot a regular tithe to blacks; back immediate withdrawal from Viet Nam; set up a draft-counseling program; develop family-planning programs; re-examine Catholic teaching on divorce; phase out parochial schools; endorse optional celibacy and female priests...
...rate among G.I.s in Viet Nam is so high that Brigadier General David Thomas, the U.S. Army's top medic in the war zone, has suggested a drastic solution: Army-run brothels. Understandably dismayed by such a proposal ("Government-sponsored moral collapse"), the weekly California Southern Baptist countered, tongue in cheek, with an even farther-out suggestion. "Perhaps," the magazine editorialized, "we ought to send into battle zones only married men whose wives can accompany them to a relatively safe zone near the battle area, and the men could spend a week on the front line and a week...
...Schoolmaster Kees Boeke ("You advance in and out through the universe," says the blurb, "changing scale by a factor of ten") and Stalking the Wild Asparagus, Euell Gibbons' foraging guide to edible wild plants. There are "pop enlightenment" texts on yoga, sense relaxation, self-hypnosis and psycho-cybernetics. Among the catalogue's biggest sellers is The Survival Book by Nesbitt, Pond and Allen -"an excellent handbook for Air Force pilots downed in remote regions...
...overruns have immersed the whole Navy in a sea of red ink. Among the most expensive items: >-A new destroyer escort pleased the Navy so much on paper that the admirals ordered 46 in all-14 from Todd Shipyards, five from Lockheed, and 27 from Ogden Corp.'s Avondale subsidiary, which departs from tradition by launching its ships sideways, into the Mississippi River at New Orleans. After the ships were ordered, specifications were drawn and redrawn as the admirals sought scientific perfection-or were sold on new electronic gadgets. Many important parts were only in the development stage...
Airline pilots' jobs are among the highest-paying in all U.S. business-and, until recently, among the hardest for Negroes to land. Only an estimated 51 of the roughly 35,000 pilots of the major U.S. airlines are black. Now would-be Negro pilots will gain a new ally. Trial Attorney F. Lee Bailey announced that he will open a flying school for blacks near Boston on Jan. 1, with an initial class of 25. He intends "to force a showdown with the airlines, which are not hiring black pilots on grounds that they cannot find a 'qualified...