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Historically, the Roman Catholic Church has regarded virginity as a state of perfection superior even to marriage. But this is a concept that many modern Catholics-theologians as well as laymen-find difficult to accept. The last church legislation governing the ritual profession of virginity was issued in 1596. Thus the pronouncement from Rome last week was received by most Catholics with some surprise and bewilderment: the Vatican has revived, in a shorter version, an ancient rite of virginal consecration. It will enable Catholic women to take a public vow of virginity while still remaining within secular society, much...
...FAMILIAR collective-bargaining ritual was played out in Detroit last week. Just 13 days before the deadline for a strike that could powerfully affect the future course of the nation's economy, the Big Three automakers simultaneously presented their first cash offer to 700,000 members of the United Auto Workers. Union leaders angrily rejected the nearly identical proposals as much too little. On the surface, at least, the disparity between offer and expectation seems to increase the chances for an auto strike when the industry's current three-year contracts expire next week...
...last of the great ancient kingdoms of West Africa is the Ashanti, whose 2,000,000 tribesmen last week proudly anointed a new king, Nana Opoku Ware II. It was the first time in 35 years that the ceremony, perhaps the most magnificent tribal ritual in all Africa, had been conducted. TIME Correspondent James Wilde went to Kumasi in central Ghana for the fete and wrote this report...
With it's ritual force. "Frankenstein" can stand as a basic experience in the scientific fantasy. But a movie of the special effects for special effects' sake has peculiar delights and revelations as well. The pseudo-myth Science Fiction epic "This Island Earth" concerns the second category of fear, fear of Alien Invasion. It Jeans very heavily on its 1956 milieu for inspiration, yet despite, or perhaps because of inanity, it reveals other immediate aspects of the mentality behind the race to the moon. While the flick is apparently a cartoon show of sheer escapism, the political situation somehow manages...
...DEMOLAYS meet with the minister and the undertaker early to plan the time for their ceremonies. They have a ritual, a beautiful one according to the minister, filled with reverence for God and the wonders of His world, and today they gather to bury one of their own, dead at twenty in a town called An Pho in Cambodia...