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...Patricia Simon, of Brookline, Mass., and Bob Maland, a veteran wounded twice in Vietnam, symbolically placed the wreaths beneath a newly-blossomed cherry tree, a few feet in front of the grave of World War II General Omar N. Bradley, a lonely taps played in the background for a victim of the war being buried. The only other sound was the whirring of television cameras...
...Christian contexts. In his Holy Thursday sermon, before performing the traditional foot-washing ceremony at the Cathedral of St. John Lateran, the Pope harked back to the presence of the traitor Judas at the Last Supper and asked: "Who cannot but feel a shiver in his heart at the grave and terrible comment of Jesus: 'It were better for that man if he had not been born.' I cannot think of that tragic Easter drama," he went on, "without associating it in my mind, as bishop and pastor, with thoughts of the abandonment, of the flight...
...avoid the problems of population and genetic crises. Indeed, he urgently recommends that society develop an "ethics of genetic duty." The right to have children can become an obligation not to have them, Ramsey asserts; it is shocking to him that parents will refuse genetic counseling and take the "grave risk of having defective children rather than remain childless." Dead set as he is against abortion in all but the most serious cases, Ramsey would prefer to see one parent undergo voluntary sterilization. "Genetic imprudence," he says, "is gravely immoral...
...three years, as the following employment figures show: 1968 1971 Lockheed 93,000 75,000 Boeing 102,000 44,000 North American Rockwell 114,000 76,000 McDonnell Douglas 124,700 92.000 By far the most desperately ill aerospace firm is Lockheed. It is struggling for survival after two grave errors. The company contracted to develop and build the huge C-5A cargo plane for the Air Force at a price that later seemed arbitrarily low. And it decided to bank on Britain's Rolls-Royce, Ltd. to deliver engines for its 256-passenger L-1011 TriStar super...
...United States government continues to demonstrate), but further putsches were ruled out. During the next decade, the Nazis exploited the freedoms granted them and their tactics were rewarded with Hitler's constitutionally legal accession to the Chancellorship on 30 January 1933. History doesn't record if any grave liberals "gave him the finger" or turned their backs on him that...