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Almost everything in Catholic life could come up for reexamination. In matters of discipline, the council fathers could modify the church's laws on clerical celibacy, hierarchic pomp, fish on Friday, priestly dress, the use of Latin in the Mass, and the Index of Forbidden Books. The church at the council cannot repeal dogmas pronounced by past Popes or past councils. But the fathers may well formally note that the last word has not been said about the church's revealed truths, and they may attempt to give new dimension to such doctrines as papal infallibility, the "real...
...Proverb. Behind Jamaica's pomp lay some sorrier economic circumstances. Despite its fairly high-for the Caribbean-per capita income of $359, the country has a pressing want list for low-cost housing, sanitation and water systems, hospitals and roads. All through the week's celebrations, Jamaica's Premier, craggy-faced, white-haired Sir Alexander Bustamante, courted Johnson with extravagant words and gracious gestures, talked endlessly of U.S.-Jamaican solidarity, even offered to let the U.S. set up military bases on the island "when and if it pleases." British and U.S. aid programs are already...
INTIMATES of Spain's new Vice Premier often call him Facha -a Castilian expression implying "What a sight!" Though he is a dandy in his uniform, Agustin Munoz Grandes has never liked the pomp of his office as chief of Spain's General Staff, and has remained a relatively modest man. He regularly attends soccer games in Madrid dressed in sports clothes more suitable to a workman; he and his wife live in a small, unpretentious apartment, and he rolls his own small black cigarettes. Unlike other Cabinet ministers who tool around Madrid in chauffeur-driven Cadillacs...
...last sermon on Easter before 3,400 worshipers. Recalling it in the true spirit of his cathedral, he says: "I felt a little wave of being slightly moved, and I thought, 'That's the last time I'll walk in with the trumpets and the pomp.' It gives one a little sense of mortality." With help from on high, a cathedral under construction in Britain got a finishing touch. At Coventry Cathedral, a twin-rotor helicopter picked up a two-ton, Soft, spire, flew the length of the church's copper-covered concrete roof, hovered...
...women mark even one birthday, Britain's Queen Elizabeth cheerfully celebrates two each year. Last week, with peripatetic Prince Philip back at anchor and her three children at her side, the Queen held a quiet family party at Windsor Castle on the occasion of her 36th birthday. The pomp and pageantry come on June 2, official birthday of British monarchs...