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...important changes had begun earlier. In 1978, as a result of an International Amateur Athletics Federation ruling, U.S. amateurs were permitted to make commercial endorsements if the proceeds were placed in trust funds, to be tapped for training and living expenses. Thus Marathoner Frank Shorter could begin pitching for Canon cameras and Hilton Hotels, Kodak could sign up Moses, Decker and Marathoner Alberto Salazar, and everyone who was anyone in track and field could finally admit to having been on the payroll of somebody's shoe company since high school...
...unholy coincidence that many took to be divine retribution. Two weeks ago, Canon David Jenkins, 59, who had publicly asserted that neither the Virgin birth nor the Resurrection need be taken too literally, was formally consecrated as Bishop of Durham in York Min- ster amid cries of protest. Less than three days later, in the early hours of the morning, lightning forked down on the wooden roof of the minster's 13th century south transept. By 2:30 a.m., flames were leap- ing from the medieval masterpiece that is the largest Gothic cathedral in Northern Europe...
...subject to lobbying smacks of a U.S. political mentality, which does not apply here," sniffed one Curia official. What does apply, of course, is the wishes of Pope John Paul II, who wants the teachings of the post-Vatican II church expressed clearly and uniformly. A new code of canon law, enacted last November, limits the requirement for an imprimatur to texts used in teaching. Catholic theologians, including those in the clergy, are thus freer to explore differing opinions. But when it comes to books intended to elucidate official Catholic dogma, the Vatican has now sent an unmistakable signal. Such...
Camera Caper: A Canon camera, flash and telephoto lens, valued at $525 were reported stolen from the Science Center computer terminal room between 6 and 7 p.m. last Friday where the equipment had been left unattended...
...Canon's factories are models of efficiency. Its main camera plant, situated 150 miles north of Tokyo at the base of snow-capped Azuma Mountain, is so automated that certain sections are staffed only by robots. Most of the factory's 2,000 employees, 60% of them women, work in the final assembly stage, where the tasks are more complicated. Canon's philosophy exhorts workers to avoid the "nine wastes," which include such sins as excess inventory or defects of any kind. The results are nearly picture perfect. Factory Boss Toshio Endo boasts that in a batch...