Word: presenting
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...salvage job. As one who has recently based his career on being Moscow's company man, Gomulka rates especially warm treatment from the Kremlin during times of Communist stress-and the Soviets have never needed him more. As a result, Czechoslovakia has enabled Gomulka to overcome- for the present-the most serious challenge to his leadership in his twelve years as party boss. Last week, in a droning five-hour speech at the meeting that once loomed as a trial of strength for his job, Poland's No. 1 Communist felt secure enough to dispense advice to comrades...
...jury awarded $1,021,500 to the estate of a 67-year-old Negro who was murdered in 1966. None of the defendants have been convicted of the murder, but one of them, James L. Jones, 58, confessed before his 1967 trial. He said that he had been present when Ernest Avants, 37, and Claude Fuller, 48, killed Ben Chester White, a caretaker who worked on a farm near Natchez. For no particular reason, said Jones, the three men took
...Democratic Institutions, argues that the present crisis in Catholicism stems from a disparity between theology and structure. "We have the structures which fit a theology that is no longer accepted," he says, "but we don't have the structures to fit the emerging theology." The new understanding of the church as an organic spiritual community implies a spirit of democracy; of shared authority. Yet it is the firm view of Pope Paul-backed overwhelmingly by the bishops-that the church was founded by Jesus Christ as an absolute monarchy, and cannot be changed without doing violence...
...Brewster plan calls for 500 girls to be admitted to Yale College in September; the ultimate goal is 1,500 girls, with the male enrollment staying at its present total of 4,000. Of the first 500 women, 250 will be transfer students, the other 250 will be freshmen who will take over one of the twelve undergraduate residential colleges. The results of the first year, Brewster explained, will help Yale to make basic decisions about its new coeducational status-in particular, whether the girls should have their own residential college or share buildings with Yale...
Another feature of both devaluation plans is that West Germany--France's principal trading partner--would put a tax on its exports and reduce its tax on imports. This would decrease France's recent trade deficit with Germany--one of the main causes of the present weakness of the franc...