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Service. Elstein was born in 1948 -the year that Harry Truman, amid predictions of Democratic ruin, defeated Thomas E. Dewey. He hopes there will be parallels this year. The son of a retired high school history and economics teacher, Ken grew up politically aware, listening to dinner-table conversation in...
Pope Paul VI shows no sign of bending his definition of religious life to accommodate the new nuns. In an exhortation to sisters promulgated last summer, the Pontiff warned against deviations from "the essential commitments" of religious life. Last month the Vatican explicitly forbade nuns to discard "distinctive religious garb...
Boston offers a striking example. Its revenue, comes mostly from property tax. Yet fully 54% of property in the city is exempt, the result of unwise concessions to colleges, airlines and businesses putting up new buildings. A surge of commercial construction has increased office space in Boston by 40% in...
The P.L.K.-an irreverent shorthand for "Plucky Little King" used by Western diplomats in Amman-is not bending under the boycott. "I think we are soldiering on quite happily," he told Scott. "The intention was to create discontent but it is having the opposite effect. Our people are more united...
After playing to more than 12,000 G.I.s in Long Binh-his first show in Viet Nam-Sammy Davis Jr. spouted enthusiasm for the Now Army. "From my Army days in the '40s to now it's unbelievable-in terms of the black and white relationship, in terms...