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...limit arms trade by the U.S. Export-Import Bank with underdeveloped countries to 7½% of the bank's lending capacity, thus slashing by 50% next year's planned $256 million in such loans. After that, Minority Leader Everett Dirksen lost a battle to bar Ex-Im Bank from financing machine tools for an Italian Fiat plant in Russia, but Virginia's Harry Byrd succeeded in getting through an amendment forbidding Ex-Im to ex tend credit to governments that send supplies to any nation "with which the United States is engaged in armed conflict." Since Italy...
...Charles R. Feilding, professor of moral theology at Toronto's Anglican Trinity College, and was based on a sampling of the association's 140 member-schools. Entitled Education for Ministry, Feilding's work concludes that seminary teaching tends to be evangelically uninspiring and professionally im- practical. Bible study is more often than not "bibliolatry." Although much is said about making the church relevant, writes Feilding, "the greater part of the whole theological enterprise seems instead to be off on a vast archaeological dig, preoccupied with the long...
However much television news im proves, though, Cronkite is convinced that it can never replace printed news. Though he feels that a half-hour news program is the equivalent of the front page of a very good newspaper, he realizes that all those other pages are still missing. "We do such a slick job," he says, "that we have deluded the public into thinking that they get all they need to know from us. And the people, if they are to exercise their franchise intelligently, need a flow of bulk information. We can't give it to them...
ANTIWORLDS, THE POETRY OF ANDREI VOZNESENSKY (Columbia). Another Russian anti-laureate. Voznesensky at least writes poetry that is abundant in ingenious im ages and engaging lyricism. Goya is a grinding tribute to the painter's horror-filled canvases of war. Antiworlds is a semicomic speculation on an anti-universe of antimatter where there would be no women, just "anti-men." Read in fiery Russian by the poet, and in English by Stanley Kunitz, William Jay Smith, Richard Wilbur and W. H. Auden...
...dating of bubbles of ancient air trapped when the ice was formed. Samples tak en from the bottom of the sheet have been found to be as much as 10,000 years old. The ice and the trapped air bubbles are also being analyzed for composition, organic and inorganic im purities, influences of climate and other characteristics that add up to a polar history of the earth over the past 100 centuries...