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...dominated by manufacturing. At the same time, single person and nonfamily households now outnumber family homes by more than 4000. Ten years ago, families owned 57 percent of all houses: today they control 45 percent. The change has come as upwardly mobile families are seeking houses farther away from metropolitan Boston...
...BRITAIN STRONG AND FREE, Thatcher lost no time - and squandered no politesse-in proclaiming her determination to "ensure that Britain remains a steadfast ally in an uncertain world." She unveiled a manifesto that would further toughen Tory policies on trade unionism, denationalization of state-run industries and big-city metropolitan councils. In so doing, Thatcher drew the battle lines with the opposition Labor Party in the bleakest terms. "The choice before the nation is stark," she intoned, "either to continue our present progress toward recovery or to follow policies more extreme and more damaging than those ever put forward...
DIED. James Van Der Zee, 96, celebrated black photographer who recorded the faces and events of New York City's Harlem for more than five decades, but achieved wider recognition only in 1969, after a Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit, "Harlem on My Mind"; of a heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Van Der Zee became a photographer in Harlem during World War I, shooting weddings, funerals and back-to-Africa parades as well as thousands of carefully composed portraits. Sadly, his "discovery" by the public and critics coincided with severe financial distress: evicted from his studio only weeks later...
Last week's debate was the first full-dress N.C.C. discussion of the issue. There have been hints that some denominations might quit the council if Metropolitan was admitted. During the session, a Greek Orthodox spokesman called acceptance unthinkable. A delegate from the African Methodist Episcopal Church called homosexuality "an aberration and perversion." Although the United Methodist Church officially finds homosexual relationships "incompatible with Christian teaching," Theologian Roy Sano, representing the denomination's liberal wing, said the N.C.C. should "fear for its soul" if it spurned the gay church...
After considering the arguments, the N.C.C. delegates will reconvene in November to vote on the Metropolitan application. If that passes, a second ballot by the delegates, and then by each denomination in the N.C.C., will occur in May 1984. From the tenor of last week's debate, the homosexual church has little chance of being accepted...