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...spending his free time in his room in one of the motels that Harrah's maintains for performers and guests, watching TV, drinking Cokes, and listening to tapes of his own performances and his father's, whose way with a lyric has long been to him the canon of perfection...
...appealed for and predicted the coming of a new interpretation by the Roman Catholic Church of Biblical passages and canon law that have been presented as arguments against contraception. He quoted a Catholic theologian who said recently that "people make two mistakes about the Catholic Church: they think that it never changes and that it never makes mistakes...
...program, the first part of the Mass, which consists largely of scriptural readings, would be read by the priest in the language of-and facing -his congregation. To emphasize congregational participation in the sacrifice, laymen would carry to the altar the wine and the hosts to be consecrated. The Canon, the most ancient prayer of the Mass, would remain in Latin; but rather than being recited silently, it would be said aloud, as is the custom in the ancient Eastern liturgies. On certain solemn occasions, such as Nuptial Masses, laymen would be able to receive Communion in the form...
...issue is the American Bar Association's recommended Canon 35 for the ethical conduct of trials, which flatly prohibits cameras of any kind. The rule has been adopted for all federal courts and the courts of every state except Texas and Colorado. Canon 35 was written in 1937 after the sensationalism of press coverage when Bruno Hauptmann was tried for kidnaping young Charles Lindbergh Jr. It is ironic that the canon has come up for debate again in one of the few cases since that has stirred nationwide emotion...
Billie Sol & Candy Barr. Freedom of the press demands that television cameras be allowed the same privileges as newspaper reporters, say the journalists and judges (usually elective) who publicly oppose Canon 35. They also claim that modern equipment can make television coverage unobtrusive, undamaging to decorum. Champions of Canon 35 deny both counts. Just like any other newsman, the television reporter is free to go into any courtroom without a camera, points out Lawyer John H. Yauch, chairman of the committee of the American Bar Association that carefully reviewed Canon 35 a year ago. It is the effects of cameras...