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...domestic and foreign assignments. Fra?ois Cardinal Marty, the Archbishop of Paris, wants to see Jesuits engaged in resolving the "metaphysical crisis" in modern society. "Jesuits are needed in the intellectual world," he says. "Alienation is their specialty." Some Jesuits want to discuss issues that are harder to nail down???a return, for instance, to more heroic poverty within the order, a goal Arrupe heartily favors...
...seriousness: "The way I figure, just by April 1975, the whole earth will be covered about two feet deep in copies of Jonathan L. Seagull." The question that itches away at all but the most ecstatic readers?and haunts the clever folk in publishing who turned the damned thing down?...
...freeze (see box, page 12). Their patience augurs well for a smoothly running freeze period and apparently provides Nixon, initially at least, with the broad consensus that he needs. It also indicates that the first intemperate remarks of Meany, Woodcock and other labor leaders?which were gradually toned down???did indeed, as the Administration claimed, put them "out of step" with ordinary union members...
...when Celluloid City really was the dream factory, when people truly went to the movies every weekend. For Tinsel Town, she represents not only an irretrievable past but a plausible future. To moviemakers, she is the Girl Who Made Love Story Happen after six major studios had turned it down???the actress who was moved, she says, by the script's "straight, basic, clean emotion." She is today's closest approximation of the old-style star, with the Beverly Hills mansion, the burgeoning career, the marriage to the industry and the chance to become very, very rich...
Threat of Fires. But the greatest immediate concern was political. Two of the main problems that turned France upside down???student unrest and inflation?are endemic to most of Europe. Indeed, until three weeks ago, European students elsewhere had been far more ferocious than the French ones. Now, in an ominous emulation, Belgian students last week seized the university in Brussels, and New Left students in England placed the black flag of anarchy atop the London School of Economics. Warned the West German weekly Rheinischer Merkur: "France does not stand outside the political streams and conflicts of the Western world...