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Last week one major U.S. church decided that it was time to give Caesar more of his due. In a draft proposal of basic principles that will be put to its 1964 convention, the American Lutheran Church (2,400,000 members) agreed that "to levy upon churches charges for municipal services such as water, sewage, police and fire protection" is "consistent with sound public policy. We believe also that the churches should be willing to accept equitable taxation of parsonages and other dwellings. Churches conducting businesses not essential to their religious ministry ought to be subject to tax laws equally...
...Antony of history. "There is something about Antony which escapes you and me," says one character, "but for which women will forsake the living and forget the dead." Poor Rex Harrison, who went off to Rome a sex symbol and came away an old man, plays Julius Caesar and is actually the dominant figure in the first half of the film?but his beetly brow has ended up in a postage-stamp insert in a remote corner of that celebrated advertising poster...
Little Me. Seven helpings of Sid Caesar make this show a rich musical comedy feast. Other goodies include Swen Swenson's dancing and Virginia Martin's ding-dong Belle Poitrine...
Little Me. Seven helpings of Sid Caesar make this show a rich musical comedy feast. Other goodies include Swen Swenson's dancing and Virginia Martin's ding-dong Belle Poitrine...
...ancient art works, even whole temples, in return for contributions toward the salvation of Abu Simbel. Nothing so vulgar as a price list has been published, and only governments or large and dignified institutions may apply. Five temples are on the bargain counter. Three of them: Dendur, dedicated by Caesar Augustus to two drowned heroes; Dabod. built by a Nubian king; and Taffeh, built during the Roman period, have already been dismantled and moved to safe, high ground. The other two: Ellesya, built by Thutmosis III 3,500 years ago, and Derr, built by Ramses II, are, like Abu Simbel...