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...February 1966, in his Cambridge, England, apartment, the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike found his clocks stopped at 8:19-the hour corresponding to the time when his son, James Jr., had shot himself to death in New York City two weeks earlier. The strange coincidence, according to Pike, was accompanied by other unexplained phenomena: his books were mysteriously moved from place to place; clusters of safety pins appeared "where they had not been before, all open to the position that the hands of a clock...
Apart from the poverty question, delegates to the convention seemed ready and willing to innovate. In other actions last week they: - >Adopted a proposed constitutional amendment paving the way for acceptance of women delegates in the House of Deputies by 1973. - >Allowed the Right Rev. James A. Pike to speak in sessions of the House of Bishops, a privilege not accorded to a resigned bishop. Pike, who is expected to have a few things to say when the House takes up the question of heresy trials (TIME, Aug. 25), was undisturbed by the fact that he will not be allowed...
...came clear down the pike with no trouble a'tall," observed a beaming Suffolk County file clerk who was standing by the upholstered bar at Louise Day Hicks headquarters. After another sip of his Budweiser, he slipped into a confidential tone: "And she'll be elected. You know it's not so much she's anti-Negro as it is she's for the white people." With a sly wink he added, "and why not? There was no civil rights when our people were coming...
...surgical precision necessary to hit only certain targets in the North Vietnamese cities, Navy pilots recently began using a new, superaccurate torpedo-shaped missile that is called "the Walleye" (after the various species of fish, particularly the American pike, that have protruding eyes). The bomb's eye is a television camera in the nose of the warhead. To fire the Walleye, the pilot points the bomb at the intended target until the camera has locked onto the object, which must be bright and distinct enough to stand out from the surroundings. Then, as the missile is released and glides...
...recent issue of Playboy, for example Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike blithely wrote that the Jesuits owned a controlling interes in Creole Petroleum Corp., a Venezuelan subsidiary of Standard Oil of New Jersey, which owns 95% of Creole's stock...