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Eight months after the death of Joseph Cardinal Ritter, St. Louis Catholics finally got a new archbishop last week. He is the Most Rev. John Joseph Carberry, 63, Bishop of Columbus, Ohio, for the past three years. Born in Brooklyn, Carberry studied at the ecclesiastical boot camp for future U.S. bishops, the North American College in Rome, and is currently chairman of the U.S. hierarchy's Committee for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs. Last month Carberry became the first Catholic bishop to receive the Protestant Ohio Council of Churches' annual "Pastor of Pastors" award. He is considered slightly more...
...Burton version of Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus was cooked up in 1966 with the help of his old drama coach at the Oxford University Dramatic Society, plus 48 undergraduate actors, plus Wife Elizabeth. Every body involved got a kick out of doing it, but Marlowe got the boot. Burton and Professor Nevill Coghill cropped lines, gouged passages, transplanted speeches and transposed sequences with complete indifference to the original...
Vaughn stressed the flexibility of the Peace Corps administration, pointing out that Peace Corps training "no longer has the boot camp aspect...
John Grey Gorton, 56, likes to say that he is "Australian to my boot heels." He is an avid sportsman (tennis, swimming, water-skiing), a cool politician with an instinct for shrewdness and enterprise, and a demanding boss with a reputation for firmness and hard work. Sworn in last week as Australia's 19th Prime Minister-succeeding the late Harold Holt, who drowned last month off Portsea (TIME, Dec. 29)-Gorton is also very much his own man. He will probably wield a stronger, more decisive leadership than Holt and bend slightly to the left in his domestic policy...
...ballcarrier. They have, in fact, become so adept at slipping blocks that not even the punter, standing 15 yds. back of the line of scrimmage, is safe any more. Kickers who used to count on 1.5 sec. to get the ball away now find that they must boot it within 1.2 sec.; this season in the N.F.L., no fewer than ten punts and 28 field-goal attempts have been deflected by onrushing defenders...