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...first the case was pressed in abstruse books of theology and all but inaccessible journals. Angry arguments were muffled behind closed clerical doors in The Netherlands, Germany and Rome. But in 1974 the debate became more general with the publication of Küng's Christ Sein (English edition: On Being a Christian; Doubleday; 1976), which quickly became Germany's bestselling religious book in a quarter-century...
...called it. His freestanding works became more complicated and took on steadily more mysterious, evocative forms (TIME, Aug. 25). His grand public structures-most notably Finlandia House, Helsinki's conference and concert center-stir an exhilarating sense of place and occasion. Aalto's town halls, designed for Seinäjoki, Säynätsalo and other small Finnish cities, use light and space to create a kind of civic intimacy. No concept was too large for his attention (he laid out whole towns and complete universities) or too small; he even designed special door pulls...
...Arab world and constantly quarreled with fellow leaders, Sadat has worked toward consensus and has ended much of the feuding that formerly went on. He put the latest operation together, first by getting Syrian President Hafez Assad to agree to his invasion plans, and then by restoring King Hus sein to a position of importance in the Arab world (he had been in bad graces since his 1970 crackdown on the Palestinian guerrillas). With unity achieved, Sadat was ready for battle...
...Vacation. The outrage in Amman brought a quick end to the brief truce that had been established between Hus sein and Nasser a week earlier at an Arab League meeting in Lebanon. Jordan police arrested an Amman bookshop owner named Salah el Saffadi, who was said to have confessed that the explosives used to murder Majali had arrived at his bookstall from Syria innocuously labeled "press material." The two fugitive employees had dragged the bombs into the office building in suitcases the night before and set the fuses. One left the country by midnight. The other, said police, coolly collected...
...made his rounds last week, Physician l'Haridon decided that the case of lie de Sein was more than a 20th century doctor could cure. Said he: "I won't leave until another doctor arrives. But I can't stay here." To the Senans, unhealthy but untaxed. the impending departure of their sixth doctor in six months was no crisis. "So he goes," shrugged one islander. "Another one will come along...