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...reaching change in federal policy governing the eligibility of relief recipients. At present, some potential recipients must undergo investigations of need that often prove demeaning. Under Cohen's proposed ruling, eligibility would be established on the basis of the applicant's own declaration. Twenty-seven states already use this controversial practice, usually relying on spot checks to discourage fraudulent declarations. Cohen has not yet issued a formal ruling to make the system nationwide, but he is likely to do so-and that would pose a serious problem for his successor, Robert Finch. If Finch were to reverse...
...twelve department heads get the same pay: $35,000 a year* plus such perquisites as the use of a limousine. Yet to become Secretary of State, William Rogers is giving up an income in the $300,000 range, derived from his law practice and his limited partnership in the Dreyfus Fund. David Kennedy (Treasury) has been earning more than $230,000 a year, plus stock options, as chairman of the Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Co. Maurice Stans (Commerce) has been grossing about $250,000 as president of the investment-banking firm of Glore Forgan, William R. Staats...
...sage and wise, humane and just, cannot use secret agents. And he who is not delicate and subtle cannot get the truth out of them...
Last month Mazzi compounded his defiance by privately publishing a children's catechism that he had been using for religious instruction in Isolotto. The catechism stressed the working-class origins of Jesus. Cardinal Florit forbade other Florence priests to use the catechism and complained that it portrayed Christ only as an "agitator" and would contribute to "social tension." Once again he asked Mazzi to resign...
White Against Black. Through the centuries, Cochin's Jews have adopted many Indian religious traditions. Mortar for the walls of their synagogue was mixed with coconut water, which Hindus use for sacred occasions. The ceremonial dress of a Cochin Jewish woman is a heavy gold brocade sarong and blouse, worn by Malabar Indian women at weddings. But the Cochin Jews have stoutly preserved their religious Orthodoxy, even though the community so far as it is known has never had a rabbi. (Many isolated Jewish colonies in India get along without rabbis...