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...issues. Representatives of the "new churches" of Africa and Asia want the council to take a strong stand on such questions as economic "colonialism" and nuclear armaments. But the numerically potent Orthodox churches of Eastern Europe and the Near East, says one council staffer, "don't give a hoot about secular problems...
...feel compelled to comment on the "disciple family." I would no sooner "save the hoot owl" with my family than I would "collect thunder eggs." And furthermore, my parents would not "hire a wolf to howl at the door" in order to have a common crisis around which the family can rally. If familial solidarity is dependent upon crises and thunder eggs, then I am all for a broken home. The very values for which the disciple family stands are, essentially, those values that the youth of today is intent upon rejecting. The value judgment that girls are not given...
...ample superordinate goals. The possibilities range from tutoring slum kids to organizing block councils, restoring old houses, sailing a sloop to Ireland and running Pop for political office. Steve Hutchison, an Oregon artist, rancher and father of two young sons, offers more ideas: "Build a summer cabin, save the hoot owl, collect thunder eggs, build a telescope, pioneer in Alaska, which desperately needs able people." If the family still lacks a common crisis, says Hutchison, "Hire a wolf to howl at the door...
...whirs in front of the hounds, who pant frantically after it. The majority of races are sprints, and even the long races are over before you have time to tear your eyes away from Swifty. Most bettors stay custered around the TV's in the grandstand and shriek and hoot for "2" or "8" or "5". Almost no-one calls the hounds by name...
...Hoot & Holler. "Laurel and Hardy did more funny stuff than Chaplin ever dreamed of," says Comic Orson Bean, vice sheik of the Manhattan tent. He finds that studying his collection of Laurel and Hardy two-reelers helps his own performances in the Broadway musical Illy a Darling. In Detroit, the 75 tent members draw on a collection of 35 Laurel and Hardy films owned by Eric Stroh, of the Stroh beer dynasty; annually, the Detroit tent awards a "Fine Mess" trophy (a phrase from a famous Hardy line)-a $15 black derby-to the man or men who have "contributed...