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...computer ballots. There was no hope of setting up an operation to pull voters in Gulfport so we hastily mimeographed sample ballots which we distributed late that night in black neighborhoods. Before we went to bed, we checked to make sure that there would be a poll-watcher at each voting place in the county at 7 a.m. when the polls opened...
...bishops and religious-order superiors, is a creation of the Second Vatican Council. There have been two previous sessions, in 1967 and 1969. Like its predecessors, the synod of 1971 is expected to be mainly a sounding board of worldwide church opinion-"a communications happening," as one Vatican watcher put it. That in itself may be more than Pope Paul bargained for, as not all the sounds are likely to be polite...
Hirohito is a TV watcher with a preference for soap operas, scientific programs and news. Each summer he dons waders and plants a rice crop in a special royal paddy field within the walls; in the fall, like other Japanese farmers, the Emperor harvests his rice. The Emperor's favorite pastime, pursued since childhood, is the study of marine biology. He spends two afternoons a week in his laboratory. On his periodic field trips he is so impatient to peer into the dredges to see what they have brought up from the sea bottom that he sometimes bumps heads with...
...Ginsberg does not exactly enjoy his obsession, another TIME watcher is more positive (and eclectic). Matthew Fox, a Roman Catholic theologian, this year published Religion U.S.A.: Religion and Culture by Way of TIME Magazine. In 451 pages, Fox argues that the magazine is as symbolic was its era's attitudes and aspirations as Chartres Cathedral was of the Middle Ages...
...closest to Richard Nixon during the coming year. In September, Political Scientist Richard H. Solomon, 34, will join Henry Kissinger's staff, fresh from his eminently germane study of how the Chinese communicate with both foreign friends and American opponents. Allen S. Whiting, a Government China watcher under Kennedy and Johnson, still advises the White House during informal meetings with Kissinger. Alexander Eckstein was a leader in organizing the study of Chinese economics; like most of his colleagues, he now believes that China's economy has largely recovered from the dislocations caused by the cultural revolution...