NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS Father Computer Current Contents, weekly publication of the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, and winner of the first Information Industry Association Hall of Fame...
...Or, I presume, for put-on input either...
...Carter would get it...
...Odds and Ends -Burroughs Clearing House, a monthly for bankers, features in its August issue the latest in religious gimmickry: Heirloom Bibles for the building of checking and savings accounts...
...The Communist regime had planned to keep the new legislation "under wraps" until it was adopted and implemented in each of the Yugoslav republics...
...In addition, the program provides a probability estimate of the consequence of not completing the penance associated with the given sin...
...Catholic leaders joined in the protest, including Archbishop Franjo Kuharic of Zagreb...
...Everything's right in the program: Free promotional material, colorful lobby displays, ad mats, glossy prints, brochures,-even radio and TV scripts...
...testifies Highland Park State Bank of San Antonio...
...for example, number of years in purgatory...
...2? Carter...
...However, Christian officials objected to the fact that they were not consulted...
...Gaston says he hopes William Blake will forgive him...
...Jimmy, who has made thee...
...Step 3: Press the 'enter' button and silently repeat the short form of the Act of Contrition...
...Thus, full freedom of choice is given to the participant/ user (PU...
...In the evening long he'll stare At a box full unaware That a nation full of sheep, In plain language, is a heep...
...That's one right out of five...
...SHEEP Jimmy, who has made thee...
...They were also said to be aware that, though the new legislation was not aimed at them, it could be applied to them at government whim...
...Given the average latency for GPA [graduated penance accrual], 6.1 seconds, this is usually reduced to 'I'm sorry.') Step 4: Removes the confess personalized GPA printout...
...Occasionally a poem seems specially made for the News & Views page...
...16: CONFESS: A Computer Program K. Majer et al (Indiana Univ...
...Ford would resign...
...The unanticipated publicity brought the legislation to a halt, in the wake of protests from religious groups that the laws were discriminatory and violated the fundamental rights of believers...
...Heirloom Bibles helped us increase our deposits over 50...
...Gave thee Agnew, Nixon, Ford, Plus a line straight to the Lord...
...The government apparently thought that Christian leaders-Roman Catholic and Orthodox-could be brought into "dialogue and compromise" under the new laws...
...Type in your personal PU identification code...
...This eliminates one problem which frequently occurs where the confessee, because he is under extreme duress, may forget the original penance...
...Step 2: The typewriter will type your name and the elapsed time since your last confess session (confession ). Following the request for personal sins, type in all sins since your last CONFESSION...
...Jean Dixon, seer: Five months ago she predicted Ronald Regan would get the Republican presidential nomination...
...Dost thou know who made thee...
...Dost thou know who leads thee...
...We can provide quality Family Bibles for less than $10 to our depositors...
...Jimmy, I will tell thee, Jimmy, I will tell thee...
...Heirloom Bibles really work for us...
...He is meek and he is mild, He is but a simple child...
...Not So Silent, Indeed A Religious News Service story provides an interesting footnote to Peter Hebble-thwaite's article in the Sept...
...Gave thee teeth and bid thee grin, Till the votes come in, to win...
...Gave thee such a subtle voice, Making all the land rejoice...
...JOHN DEEDY...
...Georg Gaston is in the Department of English at Appalachian State University in Boone, N.C...
...Gerald Ford would be wounded in an assassination attempt during July...
...Dost thou know who made thee...
...So do you still wanna know who's she picking for victory on Nov...
...the Heirloom Bible is available in both Protestant and Catholic editions...
...This is one such...
...Don't be nervous...
...The RNS story told of the upsetting of new anti-religious legislation in Yugoslavia, when a Zagreb journalist assigned to Skopje, the capital of Macedonia, filed an "unauthorized report" of discussion of the legislation in the local parliament...
...The authors note that in a study "to determine the reliability of the confess program," the average wait for a confess box was only 1.72 minutes, as compared to 7.12 minutes wait for a confessional booth with a PP...
...NEWS& VIEWS Father Computer Current Contents, weekly publication of the Institute for Scientific Information in Philadelphia, and winner of the first Information Industry Association Hall of Fame Award, offers the following in its social and behavioral sciences edition for Aug...
...The Institute for Scientific Information states that it "makes a reasonable effort to supply complete and accurate information in its information services, but does not assume any liability for errors or omissions...
...in AV Communtcatton Review) from Worm Runner's Digest) 22:63-7, Spring 74 (pd 3347a) . . . "Recent Vatican interest in the effect upon laymen of the shortage of professional priests (PP) and the decreased seminary enrollment of potential priests (PP) has led to the development of Computerized Operations (Nonretrievable) for Expediting Sinner Services (confess...
...This program provides a viable alternative to traditional confession procedures by listing penance requirements (by sin) on a private printout to confessees appropriate to the sin committed...
...10 Commonweal pointing out that Eastern European journalists are not so conforming as is usually thought, and that they do possess a surprising measure of professional initiative...
...GEORG GASTON The legislation was aimed chiefly at Muslims, because of their higher birth rate and success in attracting youths from other religious bodies...
...The authors describe the PU procedures in steps: "Step 1: Enter the confess box, and kneel on the cushioned kneeler in front of the typewriter/console...
...Little lambs, God save thee...
...Hubert Humphrey and Jimmy Carter would battle to the wire for the Democratic nomination...
Vol. 103 • September 1976 • No. 20
