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Died. Carl Atwood Hatch, 73, Democratic Senator from New Mexico from 1933 to 1949, author of the 1939 and 1940 Hatch Acts, designed to prevent "pernicious political activities" in national campaigns; of pulmonary emphysema; in Albuquerque. The Hatch Acts limit annual party expenditures to $3,000,000, forbid all save top-level federal employees from politicking or being dunned for contributions. But campaign committees find ways to evade the ceiling, and wild horses cannot stop every good man, civil servant or no, from coming to the aid of his party...
Though Roman Catholics and Orthodox and Conservative Jews forbid cremation, many Protestant clergymen prefer it for its lack of ostentation (minimum cremation price is about $100); nevertheless, the national percentage of cremations to burials has stayed at less than 4% for the past ten years...
...Beware of false prophets," Jesus warned, and St. Paul urged the church at Ephesus to "mark them which cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them." For the 350,000 members of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, these injunctions forbid taking part in the "false ecumenicism" of modern Christianity, and even sharing worship with other Lutherans who interpret differently the doctrines of the Reformation. Carrying out this belief, the Wisconsiners at their biennial convention in Milwaukee last week broke away from their oldest ally among the nation's conservative Lutheran churches...
...upon Wallace to give "unequivocal assurance that you will not bar entry to these students." Wallace broke in: "We don't want to hear any speeches." Then, while Katzenbach fidgeted under the broiling Alabama sun, Wallace read off a ponderous, five-page proclamation. Concluded he: "I denounce and forbid this illegal and unwarranted action by the Central Government...
...mustachioed grandfather, Maximilian, who came out of the Black Forest 85 years ago to start a language business in Providence, went on to engage such temporary teachers as Leon Trotsky and James Joyce. Using The Method, native-born instructors today speak in class only the language they teach, forbid English, repeat constantly, and guide befuddled beginners with props and pictures. Nelson Rockefeller learned his Spanish that way, and Douglas Dillon perfected his French. Academic critics charge that The Method is acultural and fails to teach people to comprehend such things as the nuances of foreign-language poetry. Berlitz does...