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...offer. To his advisers, he said that the precedent of a Congressman negotiating with foreign interests "could lead to chaos in bilateral government talks." He added: "As much as I want my legislative program passed, I can't compromise." In a public statement, the President pointedly criticized the "unorthodox action" of the Japanese in dealing privately with Mills on a matter of foreign policy and reiterated his support for mandatory textile quotas. Mills warned that he would block any attempt to write quotas into law. That was an exceptionally strong stand for Mills, who usually says only that...
Hiring other personnel proved harder. Garfield's white nursing director quit shortly after the merger: Showalter desperately replaced her with a black male nurse who lacked the generally required bachelor's degree. Other appointments were equally unorthodox. Garfield's personnel director is a former inventory clerk at a local faucet factory; the food-service manager is a onetime hospital kitchen worker whose ability to run a kitchen more than compensates for her lack of training in dietetics...
That does not give Catholics carte blanche. Doctrinal investigations of unorthodox theological views will continue. But now, even where opinions are clearly at variance with official teaching, the Vatican will consult the theologian in question, and his bishop, before making a decision. In difficult cases, two independent experts will be asked for opinions. The document does not mention excommunication of persistent offenders. The ultimate punishment appears to be public censure of a theologian's views or dismissal from a teaching post. As the Sacred Congregation's Monsignor Josef Tomko commented with grand metaphor: "The electric chair...
Pierce's conclusion grew out of some unorthodox experiments he conducted four years ago in an unusual laboratory: his bathroom (TIME, May 6, 1966). During the first five minutes of a shower, he observed, the electrical field in his bathroom steadily built up in intensity. The effect was too small to present any danger, but that might not be so in the case of the million-cubic-foot tank of a supertanker. There, Pierce has calculated, the electrical charge could easily exceed 10,000 volts per meter after about 45 minutes of spraying...
...hardly endeared him to Communist Party Boss Walter Ulbricht and East Germany''s other rulers. For more than five years, they have kept him in limbo. He is allowed to live in peace and runs something of an intellectual salon in his two-room flat. The unorthodox Marxist philosopher Robert Havemann visits regularly, and Folk Singer Joan Baez called on him in 1967. But Biermann is not permitted to publish his works, perform in public, or travel outside the German Democratic Republic. He is never mentioned in the East German press. "I am a nonexistent person," he told...