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...Council voted 5-4 on Friday to appoint Peterson upon receipt of Corcoran's resignation, but councillor Thomas Danehy asked for reconsideration in a motion filed yesterday...
Ever since 1950, the Communist government in Prague has steadfastly refused to let the Vatican appoint bishops in Czechoslovakia. The Dubček regime opened negotiations with the Holy See in 1968, but they were abruptly suspended after the Soviet invasion and Dubček's fall. Since then, the country's prelates have been dying off without being replaced. The death of two Czechoslovak bishops last month leaves only one of the country's twelve dioceses in the hands of a Vatican appointee...
Over his desk, Denenberg has placed the Latin motto Populus iamdudum defutatus est, which he translates as "The consumer has been screwed long enough." To help beleaguered buyers, Denenberg has ordered all the 1,157 insurance companies that do business in Pennsylvania to appoint ombudsmen to hear consumer complaints. He has sent traveling teams of investigators to hear gripes from policyholders in small communities throughout the state. Consumer complaints are pouring in to Denenberg's office at an annual rate of 50,000, up from 25,000 in 1971. He has conducted televised hearings and investigations on just about...
...trip to Europe?especially Great Britain?would be right in keeping with the current boom. England is experiencing such a resurgence of witchcraft and other occult dabbling that an ecumenical commission of Anglicans and Roman Catholics recently recommended that each diocese appoint an official exorcist to drive out demons. In France, a popular seer named Madame Soleil gives weekday advice on radio, and rumors say that Black Masses are being performed in Paris and Lyons...
...Department had in fact not wanted to appoint Klein, it might very well have spared itself the unpleasantness of arguing his merits and simply sent his name to an ad hoc committee sure to shoot him down. Neither Klein nor his senior colleagues contend that is what happened. Such things have happened, however, in the History Department, which is notorious for its acrimonious debates and factional splits...