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Married. Edward J. Sponga, 50, No. 1 Jesuit priest of Maryland Province; and Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a divorced nurse (see RELIGION...
...head of the Maryland Province of the Society of Jesus, which extends from North Carolina to Ohio, the Very Rev. Edward J. Sponga, 50, was, in effect, the Jesuit equivalent of a bishop. Last week Father Sponga quietly abandoned his vow of celibacy to marry Mary Ellen Barrett, 33, a nurse at a Roman Catholic hospital in the Philadelphia suburb of Darby, Pa., and the divorced mother of three children. In so doing, he became the highest ranking ecclesiastic of the 350 or so priests who have left the Catholic Church in the U.S. within the last two years...
...That brought first-half earnings to $386 million, more than double what the company was clearing in a full year as recently as 1963. Part of the strong surge comes from the fact that the company has increased outright sales (as opposed to leasing) of its computers. Chairman Thomas J. Watson, in a monumental piece of understatement, said "our long-term prospects continue to be very good...
...J. Reynolds, which has three of the best-selling cigarette brands (Camels, Winston and Salem), posted record sales ($495 million) and earnings ($36.4 million) last quarter. Still, profits were not much more than a millimeter above the same quarter in 1967 ($35.8 million) and, notably, much of the increase was earned in the company's nontobacco business (including Chun King foods, Vermont Maid syrups...
...Robert E. Quinn was satisfied that the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, passed by Congress in August 1964, was equivalent to a declaration of war. "The language," he said, "clearly indicates that Congress recognized and declared that the Gulf of Tonkin attack precipitated a state of armed conflict." Judge Paul J. Kilday did not think the Tonkin resolution constituted a declaration of war, but he did think that "abundant authority exists to make clear that a condition of war between states may exist without a formal declaration." For precedents, he began back in 1800 when Supreme Court Justice Bushrod Washington (nephew...