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...French hierarchy is well aware that the process of drawing the workers back into the church's fold will be long and difficult. Among French workers nowadays, according to a recent government survey, the percentage of practicing Catholics runs from 2% to 10% ; many millions can quite reasonably be called pagan...
...week, in a swift and surprising reversal of form, the five ended their hesitation. At a two-day meeting at the Common Market's Brussels headquarters, they finally stood up to Charles de Gaulle, laid down firm but polite terms aimed at coaxing the French back to the fold...
...Austria to a glass-and-concrete factory outside Stuttgart, where 2,400 workers now turn out 56 cars a day-every one handmade and every engine stamped with the initials of the master mechanic who assembled it. Porsche sales last year reached $40 million, a 350-fold increase over...
...makes the U.S. motorist fume, but it is music to Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. As a leader in the U.S.'s $7 billion-a-year market for auto parts, G. & W. lives on breakdowns and damage. It lives well: since 1958, it has multiplied its annual sales 22-fold to $175 million, acquired 57 companies that make products as diverse as guitars, jet-engine parts and survival equipment for spacemen. Last week, in its most ambitious diversification, G. & W. made a deal to merge with New Jersey Zinc Co. If shareholders of both companies approve as expected...
...that students shy away from the open convert seeker or "the guy who wants to gimmick around with your life." "Our job is people," says the Rev. Harold Cooper, one of the Protestant chaplains at the University of Massachusetts, "and the idea is not to bring them into the fold but to help them live better lives as persons." Most chaplains today shun even such an old-fashioned evangelistic idea as a "Religious Emphasis Week"; they talk about God only when the students want to. Church-sponsored activities, often organized ecumenically by team ministers of different faiths, rarely stress their...