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...grass, stuff, boo, hemp and Mary Jane-seems to be this year's way among students of preserving the perennial illusion that the younger generation is going to hell. Statistics on the problem are nonexistent, and its extent is tough to gauge. School officials normally ignore it or hush it up; students with first-hand knowledge are prone to boastful exaggeration; arrests are relatively rare...
...Washington in 1959. In 1961 he delivered a public warning against the dangerous methods being used by certain Catholic scriptural scholars. Two years ago, he persuaded a few U.S. bishops to cancel speaking engagements by Swiss Theologian Hans Kung. More recently, he has advised U.S. church authorities to hush some outspoken lay Catholic journalists, notably Freelance Writer Michael Novak (A New Generation, The Open Church), a doctoral student at Harvard. The American hierarchy does not much relish Vagnozzi's intervention. "A Papal Nuncio is one step higher than an Apostolic Delegate," mused one U.S. cardinal. "Maybe...
...functioning perfectly and nine points chalked up toward the 1965 Grand Prix championship, Clark quickly forgot the pain in his back. "It feels good to be back on top again," he beamed. Come June, factory mechanics will replace his Lotus' 195-h.p. V-8 Climax engine with a hush-hush 16-cylinder job that is supposed to have something of the same effect as gluing two of the old engines together. "Nothing much to it," shrugged a Lotus engineer. "We are simply picking up a bit more power, that...
...most valuable deposit in Switzerland's bulging banks is secrecy, which the Swiss have shrewdly used to lure shy money from all over the world. Any threat to this hush-hush, confessional quality is therefore a blow at the very center of the multibillion-dollar Swiss banking industry. By the same token, a nation or group that sets out to track down the wealth of teetering tyrants or the merely discreet rich frequently looks with frustration to the Swiss banks, with their anonymous sanctuary and numbered accounts. Last week secrecy and the desire for disclosure clashed in the Swiss...
...almost ended, the officials awarded the visitors a free kick on a foul in the Harvard some, and for the first time, a pall fell over the this hand of spectators on the sidelines. The Crimson's hitherto untouched goal line was foremost in everybody's mind, and a hush descended as the Exeter forward addressed the ball and Crimson goalkeeper Norris Childs crouched to defend his nets...