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...Rome last week for an audience with Pope John, frail, pale Thomas Cardinal Tien Ken-sin, 69, was halfway to a new assignment-his first since 1948. In that year, as the Chinese Reds were advancing against the Nationalists, Chinese Cardinal Tien, suffering from a heart ailment, left Peking for Shanghai and then for a long recuperation in the still peaceful British Crown Colony of Hong Kong. After China fell to the Communists, the cardinal retired to a seminary of his congregation, the missionary Society of the Divine Word, near Chicago...
...about certainly served a better purpose of dying on that cross than by being shipped to the slaughterhouse and there made into lamb chops for somebody's oven ... If some of the people who are so zealous to avenge that lamb were concerned over their own lives, and sin, and soul, and the Bible truth that you saw at Temple Baptist Church of how Christ died, we could have a great revival in this city . . . We shall have another special service Sunday night, Feb. 28, at 7:30. Don't miss...
...generally understood by Orthodox rabbis as forbidding contraceptive devices, on the ground that users commit the sin of Onan, who "spilled [his seed] on the ground." But how about oral contraceptives in pill form? Rabbi Tendler's answer: oral contraceptives are permissible. But the effect of some of the pills now used (in experiments in Puerto Rico, for instance) is to reduce the hormone level in a woman, which in turn may result in constant minor bleeding from the uterus. The law forbids sexual intercourse with a woman who is nidah (menstruous); therefore intercourse would be wrong...
Born. To Marisa Pavan, 27, cinemactress (The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit), twin sister of Cinemactress Pier Angeli; and Jean Pierre Aumont, 49, French cinemactor (The Seventh Sin): their second son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Patrick. Weight...
...comedies resemble nothing so much as tragedy. A spinster just this side of 70, Novelist Compton-Burnett is a literary cross between Grandma Moses and a Greek Fury. Her plots, characters and settings are primitive, repetitive, even ludicrous, but the insights she extracts from them are as sophisticated as sin...