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...well; GM became the target of about 250 state and private lawsuits. Last week, after months of legal maneuvering, the company reached a settlement with 44 state attorneys general, who had been suing on behalf of all "Chevymobile" buyers in their states, that should end the great engine flap...
...Anglicans and one United Reformed Church member, call their paperback collection of essays The Myth of God Incarnate. They make no claim to being original. The divinity of Jesus has been under more or less continual attack from the Christian left for a century and a half. Why the flap then? For one thing, Britain remains fairly conservative. As the book's preface puts it, belief in Christ's incarnation has "long been something of a shibboleth" in England. Besides that, one contributor, Oxford Theologian Maurice Wiles, was for five years chairman of the Church of England...
...somewhat streamlined cover format. More often in recent years, we have wanted to announce to our readers an important second feature. In the shop parlance here at TIME, this is known as an "inside cover." To bill this feature consistently! clearly and (we hope) attractively, we have devised the flap in the upper right-hand corner of this week's cover. Another new element is not a matter of design: the symbol in the lower left-hand corner is a universal product code that will help TIME'S distributors keep track by computer of their volume of sales...
...really enjoyed Florence Cadigan's letter [June 20] regarding my eggless, butterless, milkless cake. I didn't know that my refusal to divulge my recipe would cause such a flap. I have received phone calls from all over the country and have freely given my recipe. Actually I have no objections whatever to giving it to anyone-I merely said that in a fit of pique...
Major technological innovations, it seems, have often been rejected by large segments of the public possessed by an almost Luddite aversion to change. That still seems true today. Witness the current international flap over whether the Concorde supersonic passenger jet will be allowed to land at New York City's John F. Kennedy airport. Supporters of the Concorde hail the sleek, needle-nosed jet as a revolutionary globe-shrinker. Meanwhile, legions of determined opponents damn it as a threat to their community's quality of life and a menace to the world's environment...