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...House at Westminster Abbey, supporters of a motion to allow women priests had reason to worry. After all, a similar proposal had failed in 1978. Archbishop of York John Habgood, who favored the change, was calling it "deeply divisive." Another liberal, Bishop Hugh Montefiore, had prepared a half-a-loaf amendment to authorize a 20-year "experiment" with women priests that could thereafter be halted. Then, during the mannerly, 4½ hours of speeches, opposition was announced by the church's primate and leader of the world's 64 million Anglicans, Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie...
...wheels her cart down supermarket aisles, Barbara Harris is stunned. "When people say that inflation has been checked," says the Los Angeles public relations consultant, "I listen in shock and disbelief. Just today I went across the street to get a loaf of bread, and it was $1.43. I was floored." Although Harris, 40, sticks to a tight budget and avoids stocking up on frills, the weekly grocery bill for her family of three has climbed from $80 to $100 in the past year. That 25% hike is nearly six times as great as the modest increase in the Consumer...
...funding for the first year is about one-fifth the cost of a single F-15." Around midnight, after a full day of work without a dinner break, the peace-loving conferees were supplied with one of war's little horrors: the latest in C rations, featuring ham loaf with beans and tomato sauce...
...offer in-flight phoning. More than business will be done at 30,000 ft. Says American's public relations manager, Joe Stroup: "We now see the passenger calling Aunt Bessie to tell her what time he'll arrive and to make some of that great meat loaf. The American public just doesn't want to be divorced from its telephone...
...BONANZA your favorite TV show? Did you crave the sight of Chuck Connors shooting 'em up on The Riflemen? Well, Jonathan Kandell wants you to experience the real thing. Just hop a flight to Rio, but don't tarry too long in Sugar Loaf's shadow. To see the world of frontier adventure you must go inland to the heart of South America, the Amazon basin. There, in a climate only somewhat wetter than Dodge City, is the familiar world of shootouts, corrupt lawmen and hardy pioneers...