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...Christian paradox that Protestants and Roman Catholics, separated in worship, are coming together quite naturally at the level where doctrine and theology are studied. Manhattan's Protestant Union Theological Seminary and Jesuit-run Fordham University are about to take the next ecumenical step forward by creating what may grow into a common graduate program in theology. Beginning in September, the two institutions will share libraries and accept each other's credits for graduate degrees; each school, moreover, will list in its catalogue five courses available at the other institution. As a start to ward an exchange of professors...
...figures reflect a paradox in the U.S. attitude toward capital punishment. Last year four states virtually abolished the death sentence (New York, Iowa, Vermont, West Virginia), bringing the total of abolition states to 13. But while the rest of the country is still reluctant to discard the death sentence itself, end less appeals as well as commutations now commonly delay or prevent executions. As a result, the 1965 low stands in sharp contrast to the alltime recorded high in 1935, when the U.S. executed 199 persons for crimes ranging from rape to armed robbery to murder...
Beyond Shoes & Wax. In running that course, the industry is constantly aware of a paradox: aerospace products and systems may take many years to develop, but they can become obsolescent almost overnight. Lockheed, which employs 81,302 people, estimates that it must generate an average of $7,500,000 worth of new business every working day just to stay even. Says Courtlandt Gross: "This is quite a hungry mouth to feed, and it gives me plenty of anxiety." Lockheed President Daniel Jeremiah Haughton echoes his chairman: "Every morning this is a problem that gets up with me. I start reflecting...
...know anything." Italian Premier Aldo Moro? "There's something about him I don't like." Pope Paul? "I have faith in him," allowed the Saint, "even if he sometimes stops, seesaws and bogs down." La Pira denied everything, insisted he had been merely joking and speaking in "paradox...
...before the thugs were tried, however, New York had abolished the death penalty for all but police killers. As a result, Justice Malbin sentenced the killers to life imprisonment-then angrily noted that they will be eligible for parole in 26½ years. Worse, said Malbin, "there is a paradox in the law": had their victims lived, the men could each have been handed 120 years in consecutive sentences for assault and robbery-and not been eligible for parole for 40 years. "I'm not a tough guy," said the judge, "but when a man kills three people...