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Last week, when Pope Paul named 27 new cardinals, thereby raising membership in the college to an alltime high of 120, he fulfilled this prospectus to the letter. Archbishops Pierre Veuillot of Paris and Corrado Ursi of Naples-cities that over the centuries became accustomed to having cardinals-were elevated to the purple, along with 14 Vatican diplomats and curial officials. Archbishop Justinus Darmajuwana, 52, of Semarang, becomes the first Indonesian to sit in the college; German-born Archbishop Jose Clemente Maurer, 67, of Sucre will be the first Bolivian. Berlin's Archbishop Alfred Bengsch, who by choice lives...
...last long. They began talking again about "the paper" and finally decided to act. Both 23, they took off for New York with some crude, typewritten dummy sheets for a newsmagazine. Setting up shop in an old remodeled house on East 17th Street, they began to write a prospectus. Luce later recalled that going home one night on the subway "my half-glazed stare fell on an advertisement with the headline, TIME TO RETIRE, Or TIME FOR A CHANGE. I remember the name 'Time' occurring to me. It stayed with me overnight, and when I went in next morning...
...People are uninformed because no publication has adapted itself to the time which busy men are able to spend on simply keeping informed," said TIME's prospectus. "TIME is interested not in how much it includes between its covers but in how much it gets off its pages into the minds of its readers. To keep men well-informed?that, first and last, is the only ax this magazine has to grind." Even so, declared Hadden and Luce, "the editors recognize that complete neutrality on public questions and important news is probably as undesirable as it is impossible...
Donald J. Eberly, architect of the most detailed prospectus for the volunteer program, proposes construction of a network of National Service Summer Camps. At 17 or 18, immediately following high school, men and women would collect at these camps for several months of service work and counselling on the possibilities of college or continued volunteer service...
Another cause of undergraduate opposition was a preposterous faculty report stating that the Loeb should produce only "recognized classics of the stage." Vague, and only briefly adhered to, this prospectus for play selection was mainly directed against musicals and Broadway fare. But it was interpreted by some to exclude lesser known serious plays as well. Quite reasonably, students active in Harvard theatre began to fear the Loeb would become a showcase for faculty-dominated professionalism...