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...dollar with an empty feeling in your wallet? Well, you shouldn't. To do so is to submit to "sentimentality, prejudice and myopia," according to Herbert Stein, 56, chairman of President Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers. Speaking before an audience of bankers, businessmen and educators in Richmond last week, Stein denounced critics of the President's new budget for their negative vibrations...
...number of groups involved in Key 73 have decided to avoid the issue altogether. The Richmond, Va., clergy association, for instance, expressly ruled out proselytism of Jews, directing its efforts only to "inactive and unchurched people in the Christian community." Such moves would have been hailed by the late and eminent Rabbi Abraham J. Heschel, who last week got in a posthumous word on the proselytism question through a television interview taped just before his death in December. It was Heschel whose persuasive efforts at the Vatican helped win Roman Catholics away from trying to convert Jews. "If there...
...schoolroom violence and forced busing threaten to overwhelm the cities' public schools. In Chicago and Philadelphia, the school districts are reeling under deficits totaling tens of millions of dollars. In New York and Los Angeles assaults on teachers and students were at an alltime high. In Washington and Richmond, so many white families have fled to the suburbs that the city schools are being left, de facto, segregated...
...theologians in postwar Europe, finally authorized by the Second Vatican Council and Pope Paul VI. Training for the new diaconate varies according to diocese. Bolivia's program requires that candidates must have served at least two years as missionary catechists before they begin training. The Washington, D.C.-Richmond program requires a heavy three-year schedule of part-time classes ranging from Christology to electives like Ecumenism. Most other American dioceses have settled for two years. In all but a few cases, candidates have other jobs and keep them while in training and afterward...
Garrett Epps '72 is a former President of The Crimson a reporter for The Richmond Mercury...