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These goings-on, or takings-off, stirred the wrath of an archdiocesan layman's group. In an irate open letter to Lord Mayor Erich Kiesl that drew banner headlines in Munich, the Catholic association declared: "The many nude people in the garden disturb and offend those decent citizens who want to use it for recreational purposes." Many citizens agreed. Asked Housewife Ingrid Steinberger: "Why should I be forced to look at naked behinds?" The letter also threatened vigilante action if the police refused to take steps. Equally outraged, though not notably logical, the forces of nudity argued back. Asked...
DIED. John Passmore Widgery, 70, Britain's Lord Chief Justice from 1971 until his retirement last year; in London. An incisive debater with a formidable grasp of complicated issues, Widgery led a controversial inquiry that absolved the British army of gross misconduct in the 1972 shooting of 13 Roman Catholics during a demonstration in Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He helped to make a number of landmark decisions on freedom of the press, including the reversal of obscenity convictions against three editors of the satirical magazine...
...around the table." The attack was led by Tory moderates who argued for a much more sweeping proposal that would guarantee schooling, training or work for every 16-year-old. Cost: $2.3 billion a year. In the end, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary William Whitelaw and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the Cabinet heavyweights, backed the reduced plan, and Thatcher and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe agreed to go along...
NONFICTION: The Eisenhower Diaries, edited by Robert H. Ferrell Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, Dumas Malone ∙ The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot ∙ Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough ∙ Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman ∙ Within the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg
...Lord God Made Them All, Herriot...