Word: columne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courtesy car for their guest speaker to use for a couple of days. Sure, said G.M., when the paper called. The company rolled out a 1967 Chevy with shoulder harnesses, head braces, disc brakes, emergency flasher switch, freeway lane-changer signal, padded instrument panel and energy-absorbing steering column. It remained to be seen whether all that would satisfy the guest speaker: Auto Critic (Unsafe at Any Speed) Ralph Nader...
...Herald Tribune folded last summer, the Times has fretted about the power of its critic to make or break shows. One answer, believes Managing Editor Clifton Daniel, might be to have two theater critics. So, starting next fall, incumbent Critic Walter Kerr, 53, will write a more leisurely Sunday column. Barnes will take over daily reviewing...
Transignification. The New Catholic Encyclopedia includes reports on many subjects that were ticked off in a sentence or two in the old edition-contraception, for example, was barely mentioned in the entry on marriage. The new reference book contains an eight-column treatise on the subject by Notre Dame Law Professor John T. Noonan Jr., a member of the pontifical birth-control commission. His article, like many others, does not simply reflect traditional views. Noonan suggests that the church's position developed in response to historical challenges, and can there fore change in the light of new conditions...
...time the six-page full-sized paper is delivered to their doorstep. The Courier buses papers out to dozens of local distributors--housewives, civil rights leaders, retired steelworkers--who mail back the paper's share of the money collected, as well as news tips and items for a short column of social notes...
Rather Cheerful. Other abnormal conditions seen at birth are associated with defective genes, but the pattern is more complicated than Mendelian recessive. They produce hydrocephalus (water on the brain), spina bifida (failure of the spinal column to close), harelip and clubfoot. When a couple has had one child with one of these defects, the chance that a later child will have it is in the good-risk range, or about one in 25. "You may think that is rather serious," said Dr. Fraser Roberts, "but we think it is really something rather cheerful. You have to remember there...