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Literacy Through Penance. A Marxist revolution can hardly represent the Christian ideal. Just as obviously, inertia is no answer to Catholicism's chal lenges today. A sensible middle way would see the church lending its weight to nonviolent reform-as Chilean Theo logian Hernan Larrain puts it, "Christianizing the inevitable revolution." In a few areas, Catholicism has had the time and talent to do so. In Venezuela, for example, the clergy has helped cut illiteracy from 50% to 12% in the past decade. One shrewd but practical way of accomplishing this was to require penitents to teach illiterates...
Allis-Chalmers has 38,000 employees, runs 20 plants in the U.S. and Canada, is the third biggest U.S. maker of electrical and construction equipment and fourth in farm machinery. Under Chairman Robert Stevenson, 60, a minister's son who started off as an Allis-Chal mers tractor salesman in 1933, profits have more than quadrupled since 1961 to last year's $26 million, on record sales of $857 million. For all that, the company recently ran into trouble. The general slump in construction, rising production costs and a sticky three-month strike at two plants combined...
...count of three balls and two strikes on Batter Art Shamsky, he cuts loose a back-breaking curve. Strike three! Meanwhile, he has scored one Giant run himself, driven in two others with a 385-ft. double. The Giants win, 5-3, and Juan Marichal (pronounced Mah-ree-chal) marches off to the clubhouse with what he wants-his tenth straight victory of the year. He is earning $70,000 a year, is the No. 1 pitcher in baseball at this point in the season, and is a hero to thousands of fans...
...campaign on my own record," says she. "I am running against no one. I'd like to be President. I think my experience and my record are greater than any other candidate or any other of the unannounced candidates. It's a real chal lenge, and that's one of the paramount things. When people keep telling you that you can't do a thing, you kind of like...
Last week, to the dismay of those skeptical stockholders who had switched shares and given I.C.I, a 38.5% interest in the company, Courtaulds reported that earnings for the year ending last March jumped to a surprising $74 million on sales of $519 million. The chal lenge of takeover has given the old company such a new openness that Managing Director Frank Kearton, 51, says, "We are coming to be like those film starlets who don't care what's written about them as long as they get their names in print...