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Your May 28 story on the signing of the Fair Campaign Practices Code by Len Hall and Paul Butler made sprightly reading, but it ignored some important points. Our code is not designed to turn bigots and demagogues to sweet reasonableness but set up a standard against which to measure them. If politicians want to use the code as a club and beat each other with it, swell...
Strongman Gustavo Rojas Pinilla last week ceremoniously founded a Third Force political movement for Colombia, the only country in South America that has preserved until now the once-standard two-party system. As Rojas explained it, the Third Force will make no pitch for support from the "odious politicians" and the "oligarchs" of the historic Liberal and Conservative Parties. Rather it will stand, like the old Peronista Party in Argentina, on two legs: labor and the army...
...cough drops) take over Beech-Nut's chewing-gum business. Noble plans other economies. For example, Beech-Nut, which started out making hickory-cured ham in Canajoharie, N.Y. 65 years ago, has had an increasingly tough job competing in food lines with such giants as General Foods, Standard Brands and H. J. Heinz, could branch into higher-profit products. Bubbled Noble last week: "This will be one last fling...
...statement "was intended as an exhortation, not as a command," said a spokesman. But the secular press saw its chance, and pounced: "How smug," exploded the Daily Mirror, "and how stupid." Editorialized the Daily Sketch: "Once again the Church of England has spoken with two voices." And the Evening Standard: "The new Bishop of London has made an unfortunate start in his high and important office." The" established Church of England quietly buttoned up its gaiters and waited for things to quiet down...
Captured Canons. Communist regimes use two methods of taking over a diocese. First they find that standard fixture, the "frustrated canon," a clergyman of some intelligence and much ambition who needs little convincing that he can run things better than the bishop. The bishop, the seduction speech runs, is so conservative that he will end by bringing the Communists clamping down on the church, and then how about the souls unshriven, the infants unbaptized? Thus, "bishops, priests and faithful are placed continually before a crisis of conscience. The bishops in particular find themselves faced with the gravest decision: if they...