Word: helpful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Time Being. The blanket calls to patriotism are almost more than many Czechoslovaks can bear. "I don't know what to do," says a history student in West Germany. "If there is any chance of winning this battle, I want to go back and help build humanist socialism. But if there is no chance of winning, how can I go back to face intellectual-and maybe even physical-death?" The answer is to plan their lives, in the phrase they often use, "for the time being." But barring a total clamp down on personal liberties, most plan to return...
...difficult environment of Viet Nam, such far-out attempts are taken entirely seriously. Animals play a major role on both sides of the conflict. More than 1,000 dogs are in action on the allied side alone, and nearly 100 veterinarians serving in the U.S. Army in Viet Nam help care for them. German shepherd scout dogs lead jungle patrols sniffing out ambushes. Often they are more alert than their masters: last week, a U.S. Marine company commander took heavy casualties in an ambush after ignoring a dog's warning. The shepherds have an uncanny knack for avoiding booby...
...compiling a dossier on Schillebeeckx since 1961, when he wrote a pastoral letter, signed by the Dutch bishops, that proposed decentralization of authority in the church. Matters came to a head last July, when Monsignor Angelo Felici, the papal internuncio to The Netherlands, suggested to Schillebeeckx that he might help rehabilitate himself by introducing the Pope's birth control encyclical on Dutch television. Schillebeeckx refused. He has been dropped from lectures and other public functions sponsored by the Dominican order...
...self-help idea has spread to 600 other prisoners who have enrolled in service organizations that are part of Warden Patterson's rehabilitation program. Among the clubs is an authorized chapter of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, which this fall is sponsoring a charity football game between the prison team-the "Rockbusters" and the semipro Colorado Colts. The proceeds will go to a parolees' halfway house and a judge's youth program. The convicts have become so respectable that last summer they were invited to the Colorado state fair where about 70 of them set up their...
Solid Achievements. They went home with a stack of business cards from people who were sufficiently impressed to offer to help get jobs for prisoners seeking parole (a man cannot get a parole unless he first has some assurance of a job). Such constructive energy is bringing solid achievements. A committee of the Colorado state legislature has just announced that it will soon propose two laws to help the convicts. One will reform parole procedures; the other will permit indeterminate sentences so that a prisoner can win an early release if he shows signs of rehabilitation. Warden Patterson says that...