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...HEREAFTER. The Pope was also explicit in his description of what lies after death, despite the fact that modern theologians tend to interpret the Bible's previews more in terms of symbolism. "We believe in the life eternal," said Paul. "We believe that the souls of all those who die in the grace of Christ, whether they must still be purified in Purgatory or whether from the moment they leave their bodies Jesus takes them to Paradise, are the people of God in the eternity beyond death, which will be finally conquered on the day of the resurrection when...
...confines of the legal profession, the Warren court has often been attacked. Usually the line is drawn between two factions. There are those who, like the late Justices Louis Brandeis and Felix Frankfurter, believe in strict judicial restraint, holding that the court exists not to make law but to interpret it rather strictly. And there are the judicial activists, who believe that many wrongs can be righted by following the broad mandate of the Constitution. The main thrust of the Warren court, particularly since Frankfurter's retirement in 1962, has been toward activism. This view, complains Justice John Harlan...
...that event, there would undoubtedly ensue a period of intense maneuvering until one side won enough supporters from the independent center parties to try to form a government. In the less likely event of a severe loss at the polls by his party, Charles De Gaulle would most probably interpret the results as a repudiation of his rule and step down from the presidency. "The people must speak," De Gaulle told his Ministers, adding pointedly: "We must draw the consequences...
...exhaustive record of a presidency ever compiled. As grist for a planned treatise on his life in politics of from three to four volumes, he has a lode of documents that already overflows 8,000 filing-cabinet drawers. Perhaps because he has always been mistrustful of how others may interpret his stewardship, Johnson has been a kind of auto-Bos-well, chronicling virtually his every waking minute in the White House...
Sources at Columbia say they are certain that classes will be cancelled today, although no official announcement was to have been made until 6 a.m. this morning. Demonstrators interpret cancellation as a sign the university is not yet willing to call in police to remove them from the buildings...