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John A. Bernstein, of Gloucester (History); Carlton E. DeTar, of Tallahassee Fla. (Chemistry and Physics); James A. Doyle, of Ballard Vale (Biology); Jack S. Fellman, of Dorchester (Linguistics and Near East. Lang.); Douglas W. Hoffman, of Milwaukee Wis. (Government); John A. Howell, of Arlington (Physics); Michael M. Lieber, of Arlington, Va. (Bichemical Sciences); Christopher Mitchell, of New York City (Government); Stuart A. Pizer, of Staten Island, N.Y. (English); Garret D. Rosenblatt, of San Francisco, Calif. (History and Lit.); Steven E. Rubin, of Malden (Biology); and Irving S. Schloss, of Riverdale, N.Y. (History...
...worst, the image that the church gave of God was that of a wonder worker who explained the world's mysteries and seemed to have somewhat more interest in punishing men than rewarding them. Life was a vale of tears, said the church; men were urged to shun the pleasure of life if they would serve God, and to avoid any false step or suffer everlasting punishment in hell. It did little to establish the credibility of this "God" that medieval theologians categorized his qualities as confidently as they spelled out different kinds of sin, and that churchmen spoke about...
...Lahore, retreating Indian soldiers hit the road for the Indian frontier city of Amritsar, 30 miles away. Others manhandled weapons and ammunition down through the snowdrifts of the 8,600-ft. Haji Pir pass. Pakistani units pulled back from the sand dunes of Rajasthan and the villages in the Vale of Kashmir. On both sides of the 1,000-mile border between West Pakistan and India, as the armies fell back, tens of thousands of displaced farmers abandoned makeshift huts and refugee compounds to begin the long tramp, with families and camels, back to their gutted homes and untended fields...
...cutbacks. Last week Germany's Rheinische Stahlwerke, whose industry orders are down to a two-month backlog, cut the work week for 1,500 men. Britain's Richard Thomas & Baldwin-the only large steelmaker still nationalized-announced plans to shut down two open hearths at Ebbw Vale, thus idling 300 men. Giant August Thyssen-Hütte, Europe's biggest steel company, gloomily expects to cut its work hours soon...
...likely to welcome. The future of peace-keeping operations remains unresolved and controversial. To these familiar problems a new one has been added: Pakistan's threat to withdraw from the U.N. if the Kashmir ceasefire is not followed by a plebiscite in the disputed vale-something India is equally adamant in resisting...