Word: iii
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...were smaller than average in stature. All were unknowns, except John Wilkes Booth. Most importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity." (Richard Lawrence, for instance, who tried to kill Andrew Jackson, thought that he was Richard III of England and that the U.S. owed him huge sums of money.) Careful typing might permit psychiatrists to help-or security men to keep checking on-potential assassins. New laws requiring waiting periods before guns could be purchased, the experts said, might make it harder for such men to obtain weapons...
...commanders see the main Communist threat now aimed at III Corps, the region comprising the ten important provinces around Saigon. Earlier this month, the highly mobile First Air Cavalry Division with its complement of more than 400 helicopters was shifted from northernmost I Corps into the Cambodian border fringe north and northwest of the capital, to strengthen allied defensive screens there. The U.S. command estimates that the jungles along the sievelike frontier harbor as many as four Communist divisions, some sheltered in newly built base areas. Throughout III Corps, the Communist order of battle has risen from 60 main...
...dying Jew, and outdoes Dear Abby by cementing a broken marriage. His ex-cathedra advice: Love one another. In his spare time, Pope Kiril befriends a radical theologian, Father Telemond (Oskar Werner), soothes the internecine squabbles of the Roman Curia, and ends the possibility of World War III by giving away the wealth of the church to the starving Chinese...
...Catholic crisis has led some thinkers to wonder whether the church is not ripe for the convening of Vatican III. "So much has happened that the fathers of Vatican II could not have anticipated," says Publisher Dan Herr of Chicago's bimonthly Critic, "that another council cannot be delayed." One obvious topic for the agenda would be a new ruling on contraception to reflect the consensus of the faithful. Another, suggests Theologian Gregory Baum of Toronto, would be a definition "of the limits of papal authority and the freedom to be given local churches." It is taken for granted...
...citing the lack of enrollment increase in independent study, Epps said that his "impression is that there has been no significant change in the rank groups," despite the Faculty's decision last spring to open independent study to all upperclassmen. Previously only juniors and seniors in Group III or above were eligible...