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...conservative who has kept a watchful eye on liberal tendencies in the U.S. church since he came to Washington in 1959. In 1961 he delivered a public warning against the dangerous methods being used by certain Catholic scriptural scholars. Two years ago, he persuaded a few U.S. bishops to cancel speaking engagements by Swiss Theologian Hans Kung. More recently, he has advised U.S. church authorities to hush some outspoken lay Catholic journalists, notably Freelance Writer Michael Novak (A New Generation, The Open Church), a doctoral student at Harvard. The American hierarchy does not much relish Vagnozzi's intervention...
Connecticut's Senator Abraham Ribicoff has proposed creation of a $100 million federal emergency fund to save the nation's failing commuter railroads, the weakest link in the U.S. chain of rails. To bolster the bankrupt New Haven line, whose trustees are seeking to cancel service covering all of its 26,000 commuters, Rhode Island's Senator Claiborne Pell wants to set up a four-state authority to provide subsidies. Last week New York's Senator Jacob Javits and Congressman Ogden Reid proposed that New York, Connecticut and the Federal Government share in underwriting...
...year, I obtained a reservation for a trip to Europe, and pre-paid the entire amount, as required by the HSA. Late in April or early May, concluding that my financial condition required me to take a summer job in the U.S. rather than touring Europe, I attempted to cancel my reservation and obtain a refund...
With this statement of the "key problem" in hand, Banfield attacks government programs from all sides: if they are not trivial, they are ineffective; if by chance they do what they are intended to, they either ignore the central problem of poverty, aggravate it, or, at best, cancel each other out. In any case, (the final stab) effective action against poverty is politically out of the question...
Tossed Paper. Last week the House was at it again. On the Tory side, former Defense Minister Peter Thorneycroft charged Labor with bad faith and suggested that it would soon cancel the TSR2 plane contract with British firms and buy U.S. planes instead. Thorneycroft read an account from the Daily Express in which Wilson, in an election speech, reportedly told aircraft workers that the TSR2 would not be abandoned, and that their jobs were safe...