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...Stephen Wozniak. Pooling their talents, the two Steves built and sold so-called blue boxes, which were illegal electronic attachments for telephones that allowed users to make long-distance calls for free. On one occasion, Wozniak called the Vatican and, pretending to be Henry Kissinger, asked for Pope Paul VI. As Wozniak tells the story, the Pontiff was summoned, and Vatican officials caught on to the ruse only after a bishop came on the line to act as translator. In 1972, Jobs entered Oregon's Reed College, but he left two years later to ease his family...
...robust idealism have meaning for a world-and a movie world-mired in cynicism and reaction. Beatty's soaring spirit infected the Reds crew, from Cinematographer Vittorio Storaro to Production Designer Richard Sylbert to Editors Dede Allen and Craig McKay. This is a young man's movie, vi tal, confident, itching to meet the challenges of life...
...current conflict has been building ever since the Second Vatican Council, when some Jesuits began busying themselves in social action and in questioning papal teachings. In 1973 a harried Pope Paul VI wrote Superior General Pedro Arrupe to "express our desire, indeed our demand," that the Jesuits remain loyal to the papacy. In 1979 Pope John Paul II directed Arrupe to wipe out secularism and other "regrettable shortcomings...
...procedure, the U.S. operates under a temporary dispensation called an indult. The indult was granted by Pope Paul VI in 1969 as an experiment, because the American hierarchy requested help on its huge backlog of cases. (Canada got a less sweeping indult in 1974; Belgium, England and Scotland had indults which have now expired...
Twenty-seven years ago, the Supreme Court declared that, in education, separate and equal are a contradiction in terms. All during the 1970s, under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, state university systems with dual systems for blacks and whites-separate and notably unequal-were under pressure from the Federal Government to integrate further. The solution usually offered by Washington was to eliminate duplicate academic programs, sometimes by merging public all-black and all-white institutions, thus destroying the identity of the black schools...