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...bishops, distinguishing the easy marks from tough critics. Ital ian imprimatur seekers have found that bishops of smaller dioceses tend to be much faster in approving books. For that reason, the Sons of Mary Immaculate, who operate a huge publishing house, and a bookstore only a few hun dred yards from the Vatican, get most of their imprimaturs from Bishop Luigi Morstabilini of Brescia, in northern Italy. A theologian himself, Morstabilini has been discovered by other publishers as well, issues an imprimatur every two or three days. "Perhaps in contrast to other bishops," he says, "I recognize that...
Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee died by fire on Cape Kennedy's Pad 34 because some of the best engineering talent in the U.S., hypersensitive to the perils of space, failed to recognize the grave dangers of a simulated flight only a couple of hun dred feet above the ground...
Powell, who called the exclusion action a "second Dred Scott decision," plans to challenge it on constitutional grounds. Indeed, the case could develop into a monumental constitutional clash, and if the courts were to rule in Powell's favor, it could result in a historic confrontation between legislative and judicial branches...
...Heaps of kudos on the Canada cover story [Sept. 30]: informative, illuminating and timely. I hope some conservationists in the U.S. read between the lines and instigate some cooperative move with kin dred interest in Canada. Booms are good, but at least a dab or two of that grand hunk of real estate needs protection...
WITHOUT FEAR OR FAVOR, by Walker Lewis. A beguiling if biased biography of U.S. Chief Justice Roger Brooke Taney, an uncompromising constitutionalist whose decision in the Dred Scott case and steadfast opposition to the Lincoln Administration's wartime measures made him one of the most unpopular men of his time...