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There are widespread Catholic fears that such gloomy papal warnings against "radical revision" could lead to what Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak calls "a crisis of timidity" among the bishops. Taking their cue from Paul's warnings and from conservative clamor at home, bishops may be content to draw back from the full implications of aggiornamento. Already there are Catholics who complain that the council is a failure for having avoided the real issues facing the church?Christian unity and a radical revision of the church's institutions and forms. England's Canon F. H. Drinkwater, for example, wonders how Pope...
Though she has been severely criticized for her militancy on the Negro-school question, it is not Mrs. Hicks herself who stands in the way of the Negro. Most of white Boston is quite content with the neighborhoods. When Mrs. Hicks ran for a second term on the school committee in 1963, she got a bigger vote than the mayor...
...richer windfall for the Government, however, is the Coinage Act of 1965, passed by Congress in July to cut the multimillion-ounce yearly drain from the U.S.'s dwindling silver supply.* The law stipulates that all new dimes and quarters must be silverless and the silver content of half dollars trimmed from...
Many unions have been content to consolidate their gains and have neglected organization drives, failing to go after workers in those areas that are growing fastest, such as the service industries. Others have demonstrated that aggressive (and often expensive) organizing can still win members. Since being kicked out of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. in 1957 for Jimmy Hoffa's happy hooliganism, the Teamsters have actually grown from 1,600,000 to 1,760,000. Hoffa's creed is simple: if it breathes, organize it. The Teamsters include hairdressers in Newark, employees at an animal cemetery in Illinois, stewardesses...
...right down to the grass roots, having seen "with his own eyes at least 15 million Frenchmen" in the past seven years. And besides, great men are sometimes too busy for everyday commingling. "Whoever believed," said General de Gaulle, that General de Gaulle, "once called to the helm, would content himself with inaugurating chrysanthemum shows...