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Merciful Silence. Under DiMaggio's hand, the funeral was sober, orderly and brief. But even burial did not bring the long wake to an end. The temptation of mystery was too strong to ignore, and gossipists busied themselves with its narrow questions. Mexican Film Writer Jose Bolanos was suggested as Marilyn's tragic Lothario, and a friend in Mexico City announced breathlessly that Marilyn and he had intended to marry in September. Writers even troubled themselves with the identity of the anonymous mourner who sent $50 worth of roses to the funeral-together with a love sonnet from...
Contemporary Humanism is catching on. Last week, at the Third Congress of the International Humanist and Ethical Union in Oslo. 400 sober-minded Humanists were on hand, representing more than 300,000 of their fellow believers in 24 countries. Although West Germany subsidizes some Humanist organizations, and The Netherlands allows them to have their own army chaplains, Humanist societies are generally denied the recognition that governments accord to religious groups. But what they lack in privilege, the Humanists make up in prestige: the ranks of the American Humanist Association are heavy with scientists and intellectuals, and the international union boasts...
...though they are down a shade from April's record $19.6 billion. The Federal Reserve Board's latest survey of consumer buying intentions concludes that spending by the public is beginning to level off. Says University of Michigan Economist George Katona: "The consumer's mood is sober because of three persistent concerns: the recurrence of recession, the relatively high unemployment, and the cold...
...begins with your decision to go and, certainly it continues as a sharp memory for the rest of your life. Each man can treat the adventure in retrospect as he wishes, whether that be by philosophizing boasting, or remaining sober about it, for it is, ultimately an extremely individual experience...
Even though he is president of the nation's largest bank holding corporation and earns $100,000 a year, Maurice Stans is a moonlighter. Once a week, he addresses himself to trends in business and Government and turns out a newspaper column that makes sober sense. Measured by the mail he brings to the Los Angeles Times-Mirror Syndicate, Stans is more popular than any of his flashier colleagues...