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Obsolete institutions of the Roman Catholic Church, like old sacristans, do not die; they merely fade away. The latest such anachronism to drift into disuse is the Index of Prohibited Books -some 6,000 immoral or heretical works that Catholics have been forbidden to read under pain of sin. Last week Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviana, whose Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith is responsible for deciding which books to condemn, announced that the Index would never again be updated or reprinted, and will henceforth serve merely "as a historic document...
...visitor as they stood on the White House lawn, Johnson called for "that frankness and candor and detail that always mark conversations between good friends." He got it. "India and the U.S.," replied Mrs. Gandhi, "cannot and should not take each other for granted or allow their relations to drift." Later she said of the President: "He goes right to the point without a lot of chitchat beforehand. I like that. I like to talk business first and then have the pleasantries later if there is any time for them...
...trade-union strong-arm methods, and for just about everything else untoward that has happened in the British Isles for the past 17 months. The Laborites shucked off the attacks, arguing that they had done their best, considering the mess that they had inherited after 13 years of "Tory drift and indecision...
Anti-war demonstrations, he said, have an important effect on the people of other countries. "They are thankful that some Americans are standing out against the drift to barbarism...
Main Course: Sex. Inevitably, the novelty wore off, and jaded Villagers began to drift away. But the word was too catchy to let go, and happenings have since been steadily spreading uptown and out from New York as the newest novelty in party giving and fund raising. Society matrons talk glibly of happenings over cocktails; actors who have never seen one are beginning to stage them. Whereas the first happenings were planned down to the last syllable and step (one Kaprow script read: "Walks to within 3 ft. of person seated opposite, stops here for seven seconds"), the latter...