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Ardent Lover. In most other states, sex laws are still so archaic they would make Hester Prynne feel at home. Sev en years ago, the American Law Institute proposed a Model Penal Code that would eliminate traditional penalties for sexual relations between consenting adults in private. Connecticut, and to a degree Illinois, have followed the rec ommendations. Montana, Oregon and others are considering similar action...
...move came after fiery student demonstrations in Madrid and Barcelona; the regime charged that students had been misled by "wicked and ambitious persons" employing a "strategy aimed at producing an orgy of nihilism, anarchism and disobedience." Student unrest, however, was only part of the story. During the past sev eral years, the long quiescent opposition to Franco had taken on sufficient stat ure to cause serious worry among the conservatives in the regime. When the crackdown came, it was characteristically harsh...
...rising Peachtree Center, a $175 million com plex that already includes the 22-story Merchandise Mart, three office build ings, a bus terminal with a 2,000-seat theater, and the new, 800-room Regency Hyatt House. Soon to be added are a 70-story office skyscraper and sev eral high-rise apartment buildings. As a civic enterprise, it would do justice to any U.S. city. What makes it all the more remarkable is that the whole of Peachtree Center has gone up without a penny of public funds...
Rockefeller still felt that he could keep his hand from being forced. And while a majority-perhaps 18-of his 25 fellow Governors are generally counted as pro-Rockefeller in varying degrees, few of them are now prepared to make an official commitment. Sev eral of the Governors in fact plan to go to Miami as favorite-son nominees...
While the pace of church merger is still tortoise-slow, there is no slackening in the trend toward union among the nation's seminaries. This month, sev en schools in the Boston area* an nounced the creation of the Boston Theological Institute, which in effect is nothing less than an interdenominational theological university. Although the seven member schools will maintain their individual identity, students at any one of the seminaries will be able to en roll in courses at the other six. By pooling their resources, the institutions, which have a total enrollment of 1,500, will be able...