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...Soviet Union, to which his father had migrated a few years after a brief, unhappy stay in the U.S., Dubček was an anti-Nazi partisan during World War II. Since Czechs and ethnic balances are still essential in Czechoslovakia's ruling circles, Premier Jozef Lenárt, another Slovak, will probably be pushed aside for Chief Economic Planner Oldřich Cernik, 44, a Czech who had been generally considered the front runner for Novotn...
Died. The Rt. Rev. Joost de Blank, 59, former Anglican Archbishop of Cape Town; of a stroke; in London. Arriving in South Africa in 1957, the Dutch-born prelate raged against apartheid, calling for an end to the government's racist policies, opening his cathedral doors to all races, criticizing the Dutch Reformed Church for its failure to denounce apartheid-all of which stirred an uproar that did not subside until he moved to London in 1963 as Canon of Westminster Abbey...
...February 1966, in his Cambridge, England, apartment, the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike found his clocks stopped at 8:19-the hour corresponding to the time when his son, James Jr., had shot himself to death in New York City two weeks earlier. The strange coincidence, according to Pike, was accompanied by other unexplained phenomena: his books were mysteriously moved from place to place; clusters of safety pins appeared "where they had not been before, all open to the position that the hands of a clock...
...Some skeptics were unkind enough to suggest that Pike might have used this pipeline to the beyond to clear up his doubts about such doctrines as the Trinity and Virgin Birth, but the conversations were rather prosaic. A chat between Pike and his predecessor as Bishop of California, the Rt. Rev. Karl Block, dwelled on the problems of buying church property. An exchange with the late father of British theologian Donald MacKinnon elicited the helpful information that MacKinnon once owned two cats...
...longer believe that which is not based on data and experience," the Rt. Rev. James A. Pike said last night in Sanders Theatre...