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...philosophy of history. As he sees it, history is a constant and fruitful tussle between the intellectuals and the masses. When the intellectual has no clear role in society, Hoffer writes, his frustration leads him to champion the masses. But when intellectuals take over a society, they are the sternest taskmasters of all, imposing an ideology because of their addiction to words. This accounts for the harshness of Communist societies, where the "intellectuals" (in Hoffer's view) have more power than in any democratic society...
Could Green Bay use him? Certainly-the way the Yankees could use another Mickey Mantle. Last week, in the National Football League championship, the Champion Packers faced their sternest test of the season; the New York Giants, humbled 37-0 by Green Bay last year, were thirsting for revenge. "We want this game so badly we can taste it," said Giant Coach Allie Sherman, and 65,000 partisan fans braved Yankee Stadium's 13° cold to howl for Green Bay blood. Around New York the "smart" money was on the home-town Giants. The Packers were tired...
...CHURCH & NON-CATHOLICS. One of the sternest of Catholic beliefs is the old dictum that "outside the church there is no salvation." In practice, this hard-boiled doctrine has been broadly interpreted in recent centuries: the last theologian to teach that non-Catholics cannot be saved -Boston's ex-Jesuit Leonard Feeney-was excommunicated in 1953 for so arguing. The council may make a doctrinal statement on the church as the mystical body of Christ that would emphasize the nonjuridical aspects of Catholicism, and spell out the type of relationship that all Christians, and nonbaptized persons in good faith...
...region to calm the striking workers. It worked, but only after Solis talked himself hoarse for two weeks in speeches and conferences with worker councils-and only after promising to grant many of the wage demands. For Franco Spain, this was extraordinary; Spanish workers, breaking the regime's sternest decree, had not only conducted a two-month strike-they...
...grounds of age alone. Dictator Franco. 69, could hardly delay his deci sion much longer; moreover, with workers restive enough to defy his sternest no-strike decrees, it was time that Spain's 30 million people were given some inkling of what lies ahead when the Franco era ends. The monarchy seemed certain to return - at least for a while - but would Franco bring back from exile the Pretend er Don Juan, 48, or would he give the nod to Don Juan's son, Juan Carlos? Don Juan has rarely been in Franco's good graces since...