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...Force General Thomas S. Power, for seven years head of the U.S. Strategic Air Command, has always been boldly outspoken on airpower and its advantages, and on other hotly debated questions of strategy. In 1959 he wrote a controversial book summing up his views on U.S. military policy in the nuclear age, but then-Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy ordered Power to lock it up on the ground that publication would be improper while Power was still on active duty. The manuscript stayed locked up under President Kennedy...
...Outspoken Journals. Among laymen, the new spirit of questioning shows in the tone of such lay-edited Catholic journals as Commonweal, Ramparts Jubilee and the National Catholic Reporter, which have sharply criticized such authoritarians as James Francis Cardinal Mclntyre, and have given plenty of space to speculative proposals for further Catholic reforms in clerical celibacy and the theology of marriage. It is also apparent in the zest with which laymen are writing about Catholic theology, often critically. In a new book called Objections to Roman Catholicism, British Housewife Magdalen Coffin challenges many devotional practices as superstition; Rosemary Haughton writes...
...delivered a public warning against the dangerous methods being used by certain Catholic scriptural scholars. Two years ago, he persuaded a few U.S. bishops to cancel speaking engagements by Swiss Theologian Hans Kung. More recently, he has advised U.S. church authorities to hush some outspoken lay Catholic journalists, notably Freelance Writer Michael Novak (A New Generation, The Open Church), a doctoral student at Harvard. The American hierarchy does not much relish Vagnozzi's intervention. "A Papal Nuncio is one step higher than an Apostolic Delegate," mused one U.S. cardinal. "Maybe we can get him named Nuncio to Lapland...
...outspoken critic of the radical right, California's Republican Senator Thomas Kuchel has been the subject of repeated smears. Last week, after three weeks of hearings, a Los Angeles County grand jury indicted four men on charges of conspiring to commit criminal libel against...
Passing the Buck. Neither Smith nor Newman endorsed Cronkite's view on changing convention coverage, but on other scores both were as outspoken as he. "I think American TV documentaries are in a rut," observed Smith. "We've carried the concept of balance too far. We've got to the point where we're almost afraid to make a point." Cronkite demurred: "If the intention is to illuminate, you should illuminate both sides of the issue because the issue has two sides." Smith overruled him: "Truth is not necessarily halfway between any two points...