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...cream parlor in the lobby is quite another matter. For 65 cents, you can make your own sundaes. So there you are. A Man for All Seasons finally reaches intermission. Quick, Harry, get into that line. Uh, vanilla, please. But Harry, I'm allergic to that strawberry sauce. Pardon me, sir, but I didn't mean to spill the chocolate. Helen, really, is it my fault if there are only four tables, can't you stand? And so with only five minutes of intermission remaining, you must gorge yourself on all that gluttonous ice cream. You miss Scofield's first...
...door to Writer John Koffend's office was closed. Researcher Nancy Atkinson, a sheaf of material for this week's Essay in hand, knocked and then tentatively turned the knob. Koffend was lying on the floor - but there was no reason for alarm. "Pardon me," he said, "I was just doing my push...
...ministers are in need of pastoral counseling because of frustration in their jobs, estimates the Rt. Rev. Chandler W. Sterling. Properly appalled by this gloomy statistic, Bishop Sterling is now planning what he hopes will become a nationwide rehabilitation program for troubled clergymen, to be known as PARDON.* A dropout from the diocesan ministry himself, Sterling, 57, resigned last October as Bishop of Montana because he felt "completely frustrated in my work." A zealous Christian activist, he was discouraged by the failure of Montana Episcopalians to support such measures as laws against racial discrimination in housing, and the organization...
With support from the Anglo-Catholic American Church Union, of which he is president, Sterling will open his first rehabilitation center in Manhattan's Greenwich Village this spring, hopes to set up five more by 1970. PARDON will accept clergymen of any faith, find them living quarters and temporary secular jobs while they undergo up to 90 days of pastoral counseling provided by ministers with lengthy parish experience. Those in need of psychiatric care will be referred to hospitals and clinics. Sterling expects that at least a third of his clients will use PARDON as a "halfway house...
...appoint and dismiss Premiers, but may select and fire other Cabinet ministers only with the Premier's consent. He is commander in chief of the armed forces and appoints the chiefs of staff and the internal-security chief on recommendation of the Supreme National Defense Council. He may pardon prisoners on recommendation of a newly created Judicial Council...