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...several times from 1968 to 1970 to discuss the most pressing issues in the Dutch church. For the Vatican, at least, the council included far too many outspoken laymen and Dutch progressive priests. In January 1970, for instance, the council voted in favor of ending mandatory celibacy. This autumn's meeting was to be a "follow-up," with delegates split about fifty-fifty between hierarchal appointees and those of diocesan councils and other groups. But Rome clearly did not want a repeat of the earlier embarrassments, and wanted to allow no forum for criticism of its recent episcopal appointments...
There is plenty of filling to be done. Something like 130 of Peking's 300 senior military men-including the army chief of staff and top officers in the air force, the navy and the logistics command-have simply dropped from public view since autumn. With just twelve active members, the Politburo is now only half its original size, although it accurately reflects the divisions in the regime between the leftist ideological hotspurs who opposed the rapprochement with the West-and especially President Nixon's visit last February-and the old-guard pragmatists who approved of both...
...trouble was that the Supreme Court was in recess until October. When the Justices were polled by telephone they unanimously declined to overrule Douglas and return to Washington for a special summer session. Thus the trial was postponed until autumn at the earliest...
...wonderful, disarmingly fluty novel, which is Margery Sharp's 27th book. Antoinette's foster mother, who tells the story, speaks what at first seems a dithering Dame Margaret Rutherford prose: "As Sir David and I had agreed, summer was wearing on, and after summer one must expect autumn." Yet she possesses a ruthlessly unsentimental, almost primeval attachment to the retarded child, whose still, strange presence dominates her life - until the mother returns with blithe hopes and confident of "cur ing" the innocent by psychotherapy...
...grown into perhaps the world's fastest-selling Bible. Since the publication of the complete Old and New Testaments last August, The Living Bible (Tyndale House-Doubleday; $9.95) has sold more than 2,000,000 copies. Billy Graham has ordered 600,000 special paperback versions for an autumn television crusade...