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Priests who leave the ministry to marry generally must contend with hostility from two major sources: their parents and the Catholic hierarchy. "Many in my family were ready to consider my wife just a beautiful siren who had tempted me away," explains Frank Ostrowski, 38, who left his Minnesota teaching post after eleven years as a priest. "But I finally got my parents to accept what to them was almost like death-that their dear, darling son was no longer a priest...
...obvious reason for the frequent appearance of Jewish students in sit-ins and love-ins is purely numerical: more than 80% of eligible Jewish youth are attending college, and they form more than 6% of the total student population. Some synagogue leaders contend that historical tradition does much to stimulate student commitment to radical causes. Says Rabbi Alfred Jospe, director of programs for the Hillel Foundations: "From experience, the Jew knows that whenever inequality exists, the Jew suffers as much as anyone. If we cannot exist...
Denny means what he says. But before he could carry out such a threat, he would have a whole platoon of buffers to contend with. Now that the going is good, he is surrounded by a public relations man, a business agent, a lawyer and an accountant?all devoted to protecting him from himself. They are necessary. Fame has brought Denny fortune?and constant problems. At home, the phone is forever ringing with calls from people pleading with him to visit their store, appear at their nightclub, endorse their product. On the road, Denny's current roommate, Shortstop Ray Oyler...
...causes of the campus disorders, the faculty committee is debating the final form of proposals for change. It is expected to suggest the creation of a faculty senate, a more representative student assembly, and a "collegium" composed of students, faculty, administrators and neighborhood groups. But other faculty members contend that the only way to ease campus antagonisms is to kick Kirk upstairs to a fund-raising post. They also urge the dismissal of criminal charges pending against some 700 protesters, arrested for criminal trespass and resisting arrest. Many of them are slated for trial in September. If such pacifying moves...
Dwindling Pressures. By its 5-0 vote to cut the discount rate, the Reserve Board sided with Administration economists who contend that inflationary pressures in the economy are dwindling because of the 10% income-tax surcharge enacted in late June. Unless the credit brakes were eased, so their argument ran, the combination of both fiscal and monetary restraint could slow the economy too much and create the risk of a mini-recession. To offset such economic drags as a sharp drop in steel buying, a leveling off in defense outlays and the anticipated decline in consumer spending, the Administration counts...