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...preoccupation with the world at large and with his diplomat's tendency to avoid sharp edges, Pope Pius often neglected the Vatican itself. He seemed to shrink from making much-needed appointments to the central machinery of the church. Result, at the time of his death: 15 vacancies in a superannuated College of Cardinals, no Secretary of State, no governor for Vatican City, no camerlengo (see The Succession). Said one of his closest advisers sadly last week: "He provided badly for his successor...
...perils of a nuclear-test ban, the U.S. has to bow to the Communist-cultivated worldwide fear of fallout. But instead of a ban on tests, he proposes a restriction on fallout. The West and the Soviet bloc could agree to equal fallout quotas. These quotas could gradually shrink to zero within a specified time, say two years. After that, until a general disarmament program came into effect, nations would be free to go on conducting tests, e.g., underground or in outer space, as long as there was no detectable fallout. Such an agreement-unlike an agreement...
...Hutchins-and Adler-edited Great Books of the Western World), to reduce man's search for wisdom to 102 basic ideas. For the last six years, as director of the Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco, Generalizer Adler has continued to specialize in reductions, seeking to shrink the unlimited seas of ideas into a fathomable pool of definitions. Now, in the first of two fat volumes, Adler offers the beginning of an exhaustive dissection of one of the basic 102: The Idea of Freedom (Doubleday...
...mountainous stockpiles of surplus grain. The Canadian Wheat Board reported that exports rose last year to 316 million bu.-highest in five years-leaving a carryover of 614,800,000 bu. on hand at the start of the new crop year, Aug. 1. This year the stockpile should shrink considerably...
With bipartisan support behind him, Smathers last week breached the Administration's previously undentable no-tax-cut line. By sturdy majorities, the Senate nailed the Smathers amendments to the House-passed Administration bill to extend for another year, at present rates, the corporation and excise taxes scheduled to shrink on July 1. But that was all the tax trimming the Senate did. It voted down a flurry of tax-cut proposals, passed the Smathers-nicked Administration bill with nary an audible nay. Ahead this week: a House-Senate conference to decide whether the House, which approved a hold...