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...great deal more than that for the rich man and the nonworking girl. A renaissance of bathrooms and bathing seems to be in progress rivaling the innovations of the most inventive Roman voluptuaries. This in a country where Benjamin Franklin was considered a radical for his habit of tubbing regularly, where bathing was once considered so alien that Pennsylvania, Ohio and Virginia debated legislation outlawing the practice as dangerous to health. It is also a country where the President's house had no bathtub at all until...
They are a mixed bag, but a growing one. Conservative Roman Catholics teamed up with a sizable number of liberals. Also included: the Salvation Army and the Mormons, Greek Orthodoxy and Orthodox Jewry, hard-shell fundamentalists and a hard-nosed minority of liberal Protestant ethicists. They are only beginning to realize that they have a common cause: opposition to what they fear is a nationwide trend toward abortion-on-demand...
...churches themselves-with the exception of the Dutch Reformed-may soon be more actively engaged in the fray. "The great majority of white Christians have felt that they could combine Christianity with apartheid," notes Roman Catholic Archbishop Denis Hurley of Durban. "But as some Christians become more sensitive to the basic incompatibility between the two, they will force other white Christians to decide where they stand." That may already be happening. One group of Johannesburg Catholics petitioned their bishop for "clear direction . . . before Christian witness is silenced forever...
...have no everlasting objection to the ordination of women," said Ramsey last week in London. He believes "it will come," but he adds that "we must not move too rapidly." Like many other Anglican churchmen, Ramsey is worried that the Council's ruling may unsettle relations with the Roman Catholic Church and even more so with Eastern Orthodox churches. Anglican laymen may well raise even greater opposition to the change...
...partly because of their opposition to French involvement in Viet Nam. Negre, 23, said no to the military only after completing basic training and receiving orders to Viet Nam, by which time he was sure that he could not in good conscience fight there. A devout Roman Catholic, he sought a court-ordered discharge from the Army on the ground that Catholic theology permits a distinction between just and unjust wars. "Each Catholic," he argued, "must form his own conscience in respect to military service...