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...only sensible that Columbia University should finally turn for its 15th president to Andrew Cordier, who has been acting in that capacity for the past year. Cordier stepped loyally into the breach-but let the university know of his own desires. At 68, the onetime diplomat and former U.N. undersecretary hopes to return to his old post as dean of the School of International Affairs. He agreed to the presidency with the proviso: "For one year or until a new president is in a position to assume the duties of office...
Opposition to the plan has been sparked by the Colorado Committee for Environmental Information, a group of 30 experts formed last year to supply citizens with facts for intelligent protest. The group includes leading lawyers, chemists, geologists and physicists, including Edward U. Condon, former chief of the National Bureau of Standards. In recent months, it has uncovered Army nerve gas stored casually near Denver's airport and probed the whereabouts of radioactive plutonium lost in a fire at a Dow-operated nuclear plant near Boulder. But so far, nothing has worried the committee as much as Project Rulison...
...bishop himself-usually an affable, conciliatory man who speaks kindly of his conservative peers-can also be outspoken. At Vatican II, he defended psychoanalysis, in obvious sympathy with Lemercier's monastery. Last May he journeyed to Rome to plead the case for CIDOC and former Monsignor Illich, who had resigned the active ministry after an inquisitorial Vatican proceeding (TIME, Feb. 14). The ban has since been modified, and priests and nuns may study at Illich's center as long as their superiors monitor their progress...
There is no idleness in Don Sergio's diocese either-nor any dread of sudden expulsion. It is rather, says Leroy Hoinacki, a former Illich colleague now at U.C.L.A., "a symbol and a source of inspiration. It is a joyful place, with no fear, no suspicion. Any young priest, sister or layman who has hopes of being a Christian, especially within the structure, looks to Cuernavaca and Don Sergio. They are living the Gospel as it should be lived." German Catholic Theologian Johannes Metz agrees. Don Sergio's benign but active leadership, says Metz-who is dedicating...
...million years ago. But they have never known exactly where to place him on the evolutionary ladder. Did he belong to the family of apes? Or was he already a member of the family of man? The questions puzzled Yale Paleontologist Elwyn L. Simons, and his former student, David R. Pilbeam, both of whom had strongly suspected for some time that Rama was really more man than...