Word: opinion
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...attention has turned, we have repeatedly encountered one fundamental problem: the absence of some central authority within the university that is fully equipped to respond to demands, anticipate problems, formulate policies, and co-ordinate university efforts with respect to matters that implicate the community. There is, in our opinion, no change more important than in improving the organizational capacity of the university to deal with its environment...
...Long Island Railroad are accustomed to seeing themselves as victims of a callous and capricious railroad management. The line's 150,000 New York commuters, said Nassau County Leader Eugene Nickerson last week, "travel in rolling slums -if they roll at all." When four commuters who share this opinion got together recently and staged a minor rebellion, they learned just how tough the authorities can be. The rebels were an employment counselor, Allen Simmons, 21, and three secretaries, Diane Glucksman, 21, Carole Geiger, 22, and Frances Piecora...
Allies in Arrogance. Last week, when the four came before Judge J. Wolfe Chasson in Queens Criminal Court, he threw out the charges, saying: "This case is a waste of time." In Chasson's opinion, the four commuters should have been put off at the next regular stop, but not arrested. Describing the conditions that brought about the revolt, the judge said: "I don't think people should be dumped into a train in which there is no heat and no seats...
...Drawer. Critics all complain that because L'Osservatore is widely regarded as the "voice of the church" its interpretations give outsiders a distinctly one-sided impression of Catholic opinion. Actually, the "official" journal is the Acta Apostolicae Sedis, a sort of Vatican City Congressional Record in which major papal pronouncements must be printed before they are considered promulgated. Although L'Osservatore is owned by the Holy See and supervised by the Vatican Secretariat of State, it is classed as only "semiofficial." Material in L'Osservatore is deemed official in only three cases: when it is listed under...
...Bishop as Banker. The Holy See, which is as secretive as a Swiss bank in money matters, has never revealed the extent of its temporal wealth. But according to the expert opinion of bankers, economists and others who closely study its affairs, the securities that it owns in many countries are worth more than $2 billion. By best estimates, the Vatican holds 2% of the shares quoted on Italian stock exchanges. It is a stock holder in several Italian banks, including one called the Bank of the Holy Spirit...