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Bohola Boy. There is no such thing as a typical New Yorker; there is no single first citizen. New York has little community sense; its drive, its pride, its success spring from small groups, working toward individual ends, making full use of the city's opportunities. In a purely political sense it has a first citizen-its mayor, whose principal job is to keep the metropolis' delicately adjusted mechanism from flying apart. In the year of its anniversary, New York's mayor happens to be an ex-policeman and ex-bartender, a onetime Army general named William...
Next day he did become the ruler of the Old City, though not of the Jewish-held modern town. In the morning two aged rabbis, Clutching their, long black robes about them and waving white flags, picked their way through the rubble of the' Jewish quarter toward Zion Gate. They had come to offer surrender in the name of the Old City's little (1,500) colony of Orthodox Jews and its smaller remaining band (290) of armed defenders who had held out during five months of Arab siege, eleven days of Arab Legion attack...
Actually, the use of volcanic energy is nothing new in Italy. In a yo-square-mile district around Larderello, steam mixed with chemicals has hissed out of the ground since classical times. It gets its energy from a mass of hot rock that worked its way toward the surface ages ago and has not cooled...
Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr last week took cognizance of the Kinsey Report. Like many another churchman, he found Scientist Kinsey's point of view toward sex "distressing"-even more so than the sad state of U.S. morals it indicated...
Writing in the fortnightly Christianity & Crisis, Theologian Niebuhr attacked Kinsey on two main counts. First is the Report's assumption that the prevailing sexual license reflects the inadequacy of sex standards set up by the churches. Niebuhr admits that neither Catholic nor Protestant attitudes toward sex are all they might be. But with all its faults, maintains Niebuhr, Christian teaching comes much nearer than Dr. Kinsey to a true understanding of the place of sex in human relations. The Kinsey Report, he writes, "proposes to solve the problem, simply by ignoring all deeper aspects of human existence. Sexual drives...