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...competent theologians maintain that they are exactly right. Writing for the Toronto Globe & Mail, Augustinian Theologian Gregory Baum of the University of Toronto argues that since church leaders are themselves divided about contraception, lay Catholics are free to follow their own conscience on the matter, on the principle of Lex dubia non obligat (a doubtful law does not oblige). Father Baum, a peritus (adviser) at the Second Vatican Council, believes that condemnation of contraception is a matter of discipline that involves neither the church's infallibility nor divine revelation, and thus is subject to change. Although Pope Paul urged...
Married. Lana Turner, 44, still well-knit Hollywood Sweater Girl (Love Has Many Faces); and Robert Eaton, 34, Hollywood businessman; he for the third time, she for the sixth (her others: Bandleader Artie Shaw, Restaurateur Stephen Crane, Tin Millionaire Bob Topping, Movie Tarzan Lex Barker, Rancher Fred May); in Arlington...
...reform law is so thorough that one of its provisions limits mem -bership of any individual to 15 company boards, ostensibly to keep him from being spread so thin that he cannot carry out his responsibilities to stock holders. The provision has already been dubbed "Lex Abs" by the German busi ness community. Reason: It most severely restricts Deutsche Bank Chairman Herman J. Abs, who holds lucrative memberships on the boards of more than 20 of Germany's leading companies...
...Lex Ex, as the Katangese call them, also refused to join the Congolese army until they received the back pay-a billion Congolese francs ($5,555,555) by their computation-they felt was due them. Tshombe brought them 40 million francs as a sweetener, and promised to send them to the military base at Kamina, where they would be forged into a crack fighting unit that would save the day for the Congo...
...Lex Ex cheered and cheered-until Tshombe was out of sight. Then, the gendarmes loaded their automatic rifles, cut the main roads into Kolwezi and held up the local branch of the Banque du Congo. From the vault they took an additional 30 million francs, then went out and got drunk. That night, as they slept it off in their boxcars, steam engines hissed up, locked on, and hauled them off to Kamina. Thus ended the long estrangement of Lex...