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...Furor over Forty Few Vatican announcements in recent years-apart from Pope Paul's birth control encyclical-have caused such a worldwide stir as the abrupt downgrading of more than 200 saints in 1969. Among the popular figures dropped from the universal liturgical calendar were St. Christopher, St. Nicholas (the original Santa Claus) and England's patron St. George. Now English Roman Catholics are about to recapture some of their lost ground: Pope Paul VI is planning to canonize 40 Roman Catholic martyrs who were condemned to agonizing deaths on the orders of Anglican rulers in the 16th...
...supreme irony is that the Corvair in production at the time of the furor (1965 and later) was considered by many mechanical engineers as well as enthusiasts to be the best-handling American sedan available. It is bad enough to live with this know-it-all but to have you glorify him is absolutely nauseating. If he is really serious about safety, why doesn't he work on the worst, most critical, problem-the drinking driver...
Coolness to Israel. What started the furor was the disclosure of an eleven-point U.S. plan for peace between Israel and Jordan. The proposals were worked up for submission to the Big Four-the U.S., the Soviet Union, Britain and France-in the wake of the suspension of talks on the Middle East between Washington and Moscow. Though Rogers and several other State Department officials spent 2½ hours in Washington conferring with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban only 30 hours before the plan was submitted to the other members of the Big Four, they made no mention of what...
Despite the furor it has raised, the Philadelphia Plan has really had little impact so far. The first real test of the plan's effectiveness will come next spring after contracts are awarded on three federal projects around Philadelphia, where the Labor Department is aiming at 1,000 more construction jobs for blacks within four years. The department hopes to expand the plan soon to Pittsburgh, Boston, Seattle and Chicago...
UNTIL the great cyclamate furor bubbled over this fall, few Americans paid much heed to the minute lettering on their cakes and candy bars, diet drinks and instant dinners. Even a magnifying glass was little help in explaining those obscure polysyllables: propylene glycol, calcium silicate, butylated hydroxyanisole, sorbitan monostearate, methylparaben. Today, the portmanteau word for such substances is "additives"-which translates into myriad chemicals that have made even bread a laboratory product and the cheese spread to put on it a test-tube concoction...