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...Brother Bobby and his sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, arrived after a 100-mile dash from Boston in a state police car. By then, Teddy was able to summon up a wan smile and murmur: "How are you, Bobby...
...Hour Delay. Typifying the U.S. problem of slow police service, New York City has five boroughs with five separate police numbers that seem to endlessly confuse callers. The police department is now struggling to devise a system whereby a single "hot line" central number would automatically summon the cops in the caller's own borough-though even this would not eliminate delays caused by police operators who ask interminable questions before sending...
...recognize the race question as a moral issue. In the current national controversy over school prayer, and in the rising challenges to church tax exemptions, theologians detect a trend toward secularism that will soon call for a revolution in church attitudes and institutions. Changes in manners and morals summon Protestantism to find a new mode of relevance in a "post-Christian" world...
...three hours, a hemorrhaging pregnant Antwerp housewife with four children waited for an ambulance to take her to the hospital. Before it arrived, she died. In Louvain, a four-year-old girl suffocated to death while her parents tried for an hour and a half to summon medical assistance. All over Belgium last week, the sick and the dying similarly went without medical attention, except-when it could be provided-in dire emergencies. The reason was a crippling doctors' strike in which 85% of the nation's 12,000 physicians and dentists closed their offices...
...Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author, the audience normally stares in stunned silence before it can summon the nerve to applaud. Shocked by the author's frightening denial of human "reality," they remain unsure of their own presence and totally confused by what they have seen. At the close of the Charles Playhouse production of Six Characters, which opened last Wednesday, the lapse is a little less long, the audience a little less stunned than usual. Michael Murray has fashioned a fairly effective version of the Pirandello masterpiece, but the production's faults are just numerous enough...