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...administration of justice. "In this culture," he says, "the criminal code of Canada does not always apply." Eskimo custom, for example, long tolerated blood-feud killings and also executions, which occurred when a village informally but solemnly decided that a particular individual was a threat to the public good. When Morrow is occasionally faced with such crimes, he makes no attempt to excuse the acts, but his sentences are usually light...
Unwed mothers are often condemned by legislators and the public as women of easy morals who spend the rest of their lives promiscuously producing illegitimate children for the welfare rolls. Partly true; partly not. According to a recent study of 205 New York City mothers (10% of them white), which was reported last week at the National Conference on Social Welfare, fewer than half of them turn out that way. As Mignon Sauber, research director of the Community Council of Greater New York, points out, the conventional picture of these women is vastly exaggerated...
...living with him. Although half the women were less than 20 years old when they had their first child, close to a third had no other children. Nearly half the mothers were not on welfare at the time the survey was made; only one-third had been on public assistance for a year or longer. And as for blatant immorality, the statistical evidence, although not clear-cut, points the other way: three-fourths of those who had more children were made pregnant by the man who fathered their first child or the man they married later, and only...
...tourists who visit Europe. He appeals to them so gainfully that within ten years he has parlayed Europe on $5 a Day into a company that publishes 14 separate guidebooks, operates a tour service, owns hotels in Amsterdam and Copenhagen and is currently planning a public stock issue to finance further expansion...
Last week, though, it became clear that Shannon is on the other side of the argument. A confidential letter he had written to the Pope dissenting from the encyclical became public, and he was reported to have submitted his resignation. The reason for his resignation, according to Religion Editor Willmar Thorkelson of the Minneapolis Star, who broke the story, was Shannon's inability to accept the prohibition of contraception as stated in Humanae Vitae...