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...earth, it would hardly have been worth a first glance. Its composition was uninspired and its subject - a rough-surfaced grey rock lying on brownish grey, clumpy soil -was singularly dull. Yet it was a histor ic picture - a color photograph taken on the surface of the moon. The dis tinguished and prolific photographer: Surveyor...
...basic tool of the industrial mission is the informal seminar. In Detroit, for example, the mission conducts conferences in the offices of labor unions and such firms as Ford and Chrysler, where labor leaders and executives meet to talk about their job problems and dis cuss theoretical examples with down-to-earth application. A typical moral issue that they are asked to solve: Your boss has been exaggerating the results of your department. During his vacation, you have to file his reports. If you tell the truth, he's on the spot; if you don't, you become...
...this case was the church's 23-man nominating committee which issued a "unanimous recommendation" in favor of the Rev. John William Meister, pastor of Fort Wayne's First Presbyterian Church, who agrees with Blake's views on clerical activism. Much to the committee's dis may, the delegates gave Thompson, who was nominated from the floor, 502 votes to 302 for Meister and 15 for the Rev. Hugh Miller, a New Jersey favorite...
...Thailand's Buddhist monks. The Thais alone in Asia have made the Buddhist church an official establishment, with the government the legal owner of the nation's 23,000 temples - one for every 1,300 Thais. Monks in the northeast are helping in community-development projects and dis tributing medicine and clothes to needy villagers. In a cool mountain valley in Moslem Yala province, the government recently resettled 300 Buddhist families, plans to bring in 5,000 more within five years as a stabilizing influence...
...novels, 30 plays, and 80 short stories. Nine of these have now been issued in fluid, faultless English translation. In Onnagata, a dedicated Kabuki actor who plays only feminine roles lives his onstage art offstage as well, falls in love with a nasty new-wave director. In Patriotism, a dis graced lieutenant and his wife rapturously relax in a last voluptuous night together-and discover that after such pleasures, hara-kiri hurts even harder. In the title tale, a young mother whose little son and daughter have recently drowned reluctantly realizes that her heart is not broken, impatiently longs...