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Catholic Scope. Out of conviction, Luther stood for truth at the expense of unity-but the truths he stood for are essential to the Christian church: the primacy of faith and God's word, the necessity of an ecclesia semper refor-manda (ever-reforming church), and the centrality of Jesus Christ. The Lutheran heritage, sums up Theologian Joseph Sittler of the University of Chicago Divinity School, is "a tradition of profound, relentless, critical Biblical studies, a theological reflection of truly catholic scope, a type of piety nurtured by liturgical continuity with the old Catholic tradition...
...British worker: collective bargaining. The order changed Britain's present, voluntary wage-price freeze to a mandatory system with prison sentences and fines for anyone who dared pay higher wages, or mark up prices, without official consent. Wilson's aides made clear that even after the manda tory freeze expires next year, some kind of government control of wages and prices would most likely continue as a permanent part of British policy...
...compa nies are sending crackerjack salesmen to such faraway places as Venice (RCA) or Pago Pago (Ford). Nobody does it as grandly as Gibson. The company is paying out $2,000,000 for jet charters alone, will spend another half million to quarter guests in Hong Kong's Manda rin and Hilton hotels and entertain them. Each dealer is furnished with a 40-coupon book of tickets entitling him to everything from a pot of Oriental welcoming tea on arrival to a tour of the Tiger Balm Gardens and dinner at the floating restaurants of Aberdeen...
While in law school, Goldberg worked part time as a clerk in a Chicago law office. Summers, he signed on as a construction laborer, once stepped on a rusty nail and had to wait out the then manda tory period of a week before he could collect workmen's compensation. He could not afford the loss of pay. "Ever since," he recalls, "I have not been friendly to the idea of waiting periods. Family needs don't wait...
...Born. To Manda Jane Pearson, 37, harried housewife, and Marion Pearson, 43, itinerant TV repairman: a reported U.S. record-setting seventh consecutive set of twins, their 17th and 18th children (of whom 13 survive); in Jacksonville, Fla.'s Duval Medical Center...