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With some reason. Between 1970 and 1975 the Roman Catholic Pallottine Fathers of Baltimore were accused by Maryland's attorney general of frittering away some $45 million in mission funds. The United Methodist Church is financially aboveboard, but there are ideological disputes. Last year a layman who works for the AFL-CIO complained that his church had wrongly given $442,000 in aid to "totalitarians" who support revolutionary regimes in Cuba and elsewhere. Church officials contended that helping groups with Marxist ideas was a "risk" modern Christians must take to help the "oppressed...
Reagan's speech was an impressive opening gun. Talking quietly but seriously for 18 minutes in layman's language, the President asserted that the nation has no choice but to break with its past profligacy. Said he: "We have to face the truth." Ticking off some familiar statistics -back-to-back years of double-digit inflation for the first time since World War I, 7 million unemployed, a national debt of $934 billion-he warned that "we are threatened with an economic calamity of tremendous proportions, and the old business-as-usual treatment can't save...
...author, who holds a doctorate in anthropology and degrees in both geological engineering and archaeology, ad vances his thesis with layman's language and expert's knowledge. Citing archaeological discoveries (both his own and those of others), he offers evidence that toolmaking men resided in the Americas more than 38,000 years ago, points out similarities between the shamanistic cul ture of the Cro-Magnons and that of the American Indians and provides convincing arguments that the prehistoric migration could just as easily have gone from the Americas as come to them. Few of Goodman's colleagues...
...sends out an exuberant message: science is not only vital for humanity's future wellbeing, but it is rousing good fun as well. Even the most scientifically untutored person can?indeed, must?grasp its essentials. As Sagan insists, "There is nothing about science that cannot be explained to the layman...
...book adds little to what a well-informed conservationist may already know. But for the layman, it paints a disturbing picture. The issues, as Simon and the Coast Alliance see them...