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Regardless of undercoating or other protective measures taken by their owners, some Fiat cars rusted rapidly on U.S. roads in the 1970s. That problem and others led wags to proclaim Fiat an acronym for Fix It Again Tony. Partly as a result, sales dropped from a high of 100,511 cars in 1975 to last year's 14,113. Last week Fiat announced that it was pulling out of the American market...
Lipscomb and many other bishops talk of the need to begin a dialogue on the issue of the morality of nuclear arms. The importance of the pastoral is that it is not an authoritarian fiat, but basically an invitation to lay Catholics, as well as to priests and nuns, to join the bishops in the kind of anguished soul searching that produced the document. It is that openness, that tentative quality of the pastoral, that appeals to Sister Mary Evelyn Jegen of Chicago, national coordinator of Pax Christi. Says...
...WHAT A PARADISE it seems. By administrative fiat, University Hall has banished all racial differences from the Harvard campus. No longer, in the administration's eyes, are there separate minority groups with separate minority problems. Instead, we are all generic Harvard students with generic Harvard student problems...
...ailing little Seat (a Spanish Fiat) dubbed Rocinante, the newly elevated monsignor and his Communist companion Sancho set out for Madrid, a city that neither has seen for many years. Like Spain itself since the death of the Generalissimo, these innocents hurtle into the 20th century with ingenuous vigor. Feasting on suckling pig in Madrid's toniest restaurant or visiting the Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest...
This week a House subcommittee will hold hearings to determine whether MSHA is properly enforcing small-mine safety. Yet Government fiat may finally be unable to make hard-scrabbling independent operators work as safely as the sophisticated corporate giants. The Mink Branch mine had passed all of its 17 federal and six state inspections; just a few days before Lillie Hamilton's sons blew themselves up, in fact, they had spent eight hours in an MSHA safety seminar. "You still find a terrible fatalism out there," says Joseph Brennan, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. "An attitude...