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Last month, for example, the Episcopal diocese of New York appointed a blue-ribbon panel of lawyers to determine whether the church should pay taxes on its property. Similar investigations have been undertaken in recent years by the Baptists, the American Lutheran Church, the United Presbyterian Church and the National Council of Churches. By and large, the studies have ended in demands for more study-largely because the clergymen themselves are bitterly divided about whether they should pay any taxes, and on what property...
This argument, which was approved by the commission's key subcommittee of theologians and even by the generally conservative Italian members of the Pope's blue ribbon panel of experts, represents a new direction in official Catholic thinking on marriage problems. For that reason, a dissenting minority has objected strongly and urged that the only concession be approval of the pill to help regularize the female menstrual cycle, thus making more reliable the rhythm method of birth control. The final word on the problem is up to Pope Paul, who has categorized the decision as "agonizing...
...holdings to the $175 million Kresge Foundation. Now headed by Stanley, it supports Detroit civic organizations and the Salvation Army as well as higher education and hospitals all over the world. Dedicating Kresge Hall at Harvard Business School when he was 85, S. S. gave one of the tautest ribbon-cutting speeches on record. He simply said: "I never made a dime talking." Then, as he did last week, one of the last of the dime-store magnates gracefully stepped down...
...sites and double its harbor capacity, plans to have the port ready for 100,000-ton supertankers by 1970.*Belgium also gives foreign businessmen low-cost financing, tax holidays up to five years, and a minimum of government interference. As a result, the Washington-based Atlantic Council of blue-ribbon U.S. business and political leaders rates the country's investment climate as "perhaps the best in the Common Market...
Perhaps Greek Shipowner-Financier-Oilman Aristotle Onassis, 59, has found his greatest métier. At Paris' Orly Airport last week, he snipped a ceremonial ribbon at the boarding ramp of the blue and white Boeing 707 jet inaugurating the transatlantic service of his Olympic Airways. He even bore gifts for the 140 passengers-key rings for the men, Dior perfume and pins for the women. And the next morning, as the jet returned from New York, "Ari" the airman again formed a one-man welcoming committee. "Onassis follows the move ments of his tankers from his yacht...