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...ever come to transferring his intellectual powers to machines, and its needs and accomplishments are sure to occasion a lot of debate. In a book written shortly before his death, M.I.T.'s Norbert Wiener, the "father of cybernation," said that "the reprobation attaching in former ages to the sin of sorcery attaches now in many minds to the speculations of modern cybernetics. The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme...
Senator Maurine Neuberger (D-Ore.) last night charged the United States government with committing a "sin of omission" in its reluctance to take action warning the public of the hazards of cigarette smoking...
...Second Vatican Council, which is transforming Catholicism, in the words of Kansas City Layman Robert Hoyt editor of the National Catholic Reporter "from a religion of paternalism to a religion of personal responsibility ." The debates in St. Peter's have made it clear that it is no sin to question outdated traditions. Moreover, the council's decree on the nature of the church marks the triumph of a revolution in theological thinking about what Catholicism is. It not only restores to bishops collegial rule that was theirs in the early church; it also justifies freedom of action...
...tradition, Ramsey suggested that the new morality could not ignore the divinely given natural link between sexual relations and procreation. Harvard's Gordon Kaufman answered that the perfection of contraceptives was breaking this link. Ramsey also cautiously agreed with the new morality in its tolerance of one sin the church has adamantly condemned-premarital sex between engaged couples. It ceases to be "premarital," he said, once the couples have made a commitment to each other...
...Lawford. She lives in a luxury neighborhood, grows prize roses, displays carefree décolletage, has no visible means of support except for a slim volume of her published poems entitled Moon Without Light. After scanning the verse (Oh preacher, I got these awful blues and a bellyful of sin), Lawford hires Private Eye George Maharis to find out: Who is Sylvia...