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What does it mean to be religious? Psychologist John D. Shand, of Pennsylvania's Gettysburg College, interviewed 142 ministers, priests and rabbis, last week reported to a meeting of fellow psychologists that he had found five basic conceptions of the religious person...
Psychologist Shand had a special warning: social scientists, in the view of clergymen, often accept superficial criteria of what constitutes a religious person-"such as affiliation with a religious body, coming to public worship regularly, receiving the sacraments, having peace of mind, having maturity, and being converted...
Thanks to the zealous bureaucrats who write the rules, many a traveler arriving in New Zealand by air soon wishes he hadn't. Last week Tom Shand, New Zealand's new Minister of Civil Aviation, decided to give the bureaucrats a taste of their own medicine. He invited nine of the nation's top civil servants to join him on an airborne "picnic" to Auckland. It was a bumpy flight (the pilot had been encouraged to seek out the roughest patches of air), and before it was over, the passengers were handed landing forms to fill...
When it was all over, Tom Shand's picnic guests were herded into a meeting. Its agenda: possible ways of making things easier for visitors arriving in New Zealand...
Playing that part once again, Helen Hayes once again scores. If she now and then turns almost as cute as Barrie himself, she is most of the time as deft and self-effacing as Maggie Shand...