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...your women keep silence in the churches," said St. Paul (I Corinthians 14:34). But Christ put women very near the center of things, and they have played a mighty role in church history as saints and martyrs, organizers and spiritual guides.* Orthodox and Roman Catholic canon laws forbid females to administer the sacraments, but Protestantism opened the door with its conception of the priesthood of all believers, and in recent years, women ministers have become almost a sectarian commonplace. The U.S. census for 1950 reported an alltime high of 6,777 -4.1% of the total number of clergymen...
...after a steady campaign of anti-Bahai polemics by Moslem leaders during the month-long fast of Ramadan, tradtionally a time for political preaching in Islam. The Moslems forced the government to take over Bahai headquarter with troops, are hoping to close Bahai schools, have introduced a bill to forbid Bahai members to hold government jobs. Said one Bahai leader: "We are not authorized by the Bahai's noble creed to fight or retaliate. The only thing we can do is to pull out gradually and leave the birthplace of our sect...
From that moment on, the treaty was ready for signature. Its main provisions: ¶ Restore Austrian independence by promising to withdraw the 60,000 occupation troops "within ninety days"; ¶ Establish Austria's boundaries as they were on Jan. 1, 1938. and forbid another Anschluss with Germany; ¶ Respect Austria's territorial integrity. Additionally, the Big Four are expected to promise to "recognize and observe" Austria's neutrality...
...general rule with classics is-time mutes, translators mutilate. Poet Rolfe Humphries' rendition of Ovid's Metamorphoses is a glowing exception. A skillful poet himself (Forbid Thy Ravens, The Wind of Time), Humphries, 60, soaked up a love of Latin from his teacher father, who once played baseball for the New York Giants. Four years ago, when his translation of Virgil's Aeneid appeared, critics hailed it as the best since Dryden's. This is only the second time in the last hundred years that the Metamorphoses has been done in English verse, and there...
...Korean armistice was signed 19 months ago, U.S. reconnaissance air crews carefully photographed the much-bombed North Korean airfields to document an important fact: no Red jets were based south of the Yalu. Since then Russian-made jets have swarmed into North Korean bases. The truce terms specifically forbid all such buildups, but by last week this and other Red violations had become so flagrant that the U.S. and the United Nations Command decided to scrap the futile pretense of truce inspection and supervision...