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...been 16 centuries since the Roman Emperor Constantine outlawed crucifixions, but the practice has been preserved in some parts of the world, not as a punishment but as a macabre stunt or commemorative rite. The latest to undergo the ordeal of the cross is a French husband-and-wife team of yoga practitioners in the Dominican Republic, who offered themselves up in the cause of world peace and to demonstrate the "power of mind over matter." French-born Mystic Patricio Tamao, 33, who is the founder of his own philosophy, Tamaoism, was the first on the cross, which...
Last month some 150 denominations and other groups of North American Christians opened a yearlong evangelical campaign called Key 73. The participants range from Kansas City Roman Catholics to the Canadian Home Bible League. Their slogan: "Calling our continent to Christ." Although the drive so far seems to be mainly a matter of a television special, publicity and local evangelizing, a recent article in the evangelical fortnightly Christianity Today avowed that Key 73's goal is to give "every person in the U.S. and Canada a real chance to say yes to Jesus Christ and to become a dependable...
...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 are some Protestant sects who still cling to this silly hope of proselytizing [Jews]," he said, "I would say that they are blind and deaf and dumb...
...today pays about 10% of the Detroit school bill, will be contributing less next year if President Nixon's proposed 9% cut in federal school aid is passed by Congress. Nor will funds from revenue sharing be available; they will be spent on other city services. Says Mayor Roman Gribbs: "Sharing the federal money with the schools would be like getting a lifeboat and then cutting it in half...
...Italian women by Lieta Harrison, a Sicilian writer. Harrison interviewed equal numbers of mothers and their married daughters and found the generations in agreement that "Italian men are disappointing as lovers and overbearing as husbands." One Milanese wife complained that her husband "has no passion," while a Roman wife described her spouse as "uninspiring." More than one-fourth of the wives charged that their husbands had committed adultery-and many of the younger women had responded by taking lovers of their own. Why did many others remain faithful? "I haven't betrayed him because I am stupid," explained...