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...thing if the directors of General Motors all happen to be Quakers or if all the directors of General Motors were bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church. Legally, there is no difference between being simply a member of a religious body and being under holy orders and/or in ecclesiastical officialdom. There shall be no religious test for privileges of civil (or pseudo-civil) incorporation, just as there shall be no religious test for public office. So the Bradfield decision and Drinan would have us reason...
...cities of Latin America are littered with cardboard and packing-crate shantytowns that house hordes of landless peasants in search of jobs. Usually such squatters' settlements are either deliberately overlooked by officialdom or broken up by police within a few days. In the Chilean capital of Santiago, however, a luxuriantly mustached leftist named Victor Toro, 28, has founded a poblacion callampa ("mushroom town") that the government cannot ignore and the police cannot destroy...
...began to publish his poetry twelve years ago, Voznesensky has been sharply rebuked by Nikita Khrushchev and dismissed by conservative critics as a "formalist"-a derogatory term for a Soviet writer who allows himself to become preoccupied with experimentation rather than socialist realism. And he has frequently tussled with officialdom over censorship. His controversial stage revue, Look Out for Your Faces (TIME, March 9), an exuberant plea for individuality and self-expression, was ordered closed in February after only two performances. But his widespread popularity as the voice of a new Soviet generation has clearly survived undiminished. "His main quality...
...Thalidomide, and more recently cyclamates, didn't make the case for tough regulation of the substances moving into the public marketplace, perhaps the 2,4,5-T situation will. This one is a travesty of the highest order yet in terms of reckless, covert, conduct by officialdom and private business. Whiteside, with understatement and meticulous detail, blows a shrill whistle on governmental misfeasance, perhaps malfeasance...
...serious drug problem. In August, two middle-class French youths, a 21-year-old boy and a 17-year-old girl, died of heroin overdoses in towns along the Riviera. The publicity from that case and the awareness that addiction was becoming a problem in France jolted officialdom into action...