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...inappropriate. Every Radcliffe student is required to become a member of RGA and to pay annual dues. The purpose of RGA, according to its constitution (Article II, Section A; page 73 in Redbook), "... shall be to further the best interests of the College community. It shall govern in matters concerning student life and ... shall have authority to establish and enforce social and other regulations. It shall ... provide a forum for the discussion of College affairs." RGA is thus intended and stipulated to operate within the College only, and in matters of College interest. It is a non-political organ, except...
Lacking a majority in Congress, Leoni patched up a three-cornered coalition with middle-reading opposition parties. The Christian Democrats, who helped Belancourt govern, have not joined, but they often vote for Leoni legislation. Leoni was in office only nine weeks when he eased through his ambitious four-year "Leoni Plan," an $850 million program to develop the interior, relieve unemployment and stimulate private investment...
...Roman Catholic Church is an authoritarian, hierarchal institution whose Pope and bishops claim to govern by divine right as descendants of Christ's Apostles. This fundamental Catholic concept is now undergoing widespread scrutiny, criticism and questioning, leading to what Father Joseph Gallagher an editor of Baltimore's archdiocesan weekly bluntly calls "a crisis of obedience in the church." What is being questioned is not authority as such, but how it is exercised; not the concept of obedience, but what it means in the modern world of free...
Loeb first attracted public attention by showing that tropisms govern some kinds of animal behavior as strictly as they had been shown to govern plant behavior by his teachers. (A tropism is an automatic, mechanical orientation of an organism in response to some controlling factor in its environment. A moth which can fly only toward a light and a plant which can grow only in the direction of light both show positive phototropisms...
...purple were two prelates no longer in command of their sees: Ukrainian Metropolitan Josyf Slipyi, who came to Rome in 1963 after 18 years of Soviet imprisonment, and Czech Primate Josef Beran, who is still under virtual house arrest near Prague. One new East European cardinal who does govern his diocese is Yugoslavia's Primate, Archbishop Franjo Seper of Zagreb. His careful policy of accommodation with Tito may lead to a restoration of diplomatic relations between the Vatican and Yugoslavia...