NEWS & VIEWS
NEWS& VIEWS Which Came First . . . ? There were red faces at the Vatican after several Italian newspapers and magazines called attention to striking similarites between passages in the...
...JOHN DEEDYY...
...One manager observed that in the affluent parts of Nashville, nearly everyone rose for the anthem, while elsewhere almost no one stood up...
...Having kept notes of the first draft," the statement quoted the cardinal, "I used them in writing about specific points so as not to stray from the line which I knew to be largely shared by the Congregation-a line which apart from anything else conforms to the 2,000-year-old tradition of Christian ethics...
...Odds and End -After a six-month trial run, movie theaters in Nashville have stopped the playing of the national anthem before movie showings...
...The Mails The showdown nears on the U.S...
...Or is it vice versa...
...Recently, the BBC got the green light from the Central Religious Advisory Committee (CRAC) to cut that time period and compensate by giving religion a solid half-hour "at a decent time later on in the evening...
...Said the weekly magazine, L'Espresso: "After nearly eight years of work," the Vatican Congregation apparently could do "no better than to reproduce a text of something already published...
...CRAC is demanding that religion have the same total TV time...
...GR's predictions: -Reinstatement of USPS as a subsidized government service, instead of a profit-oriented business...
...In any case, the statement noted that Cardinal Palazzini-then Msgr...
...They think back to the early 1950s when conservatives resisted the very idea of Sunday religious programming on grounds that it could cut attendance at church services and Sunday school...
...I guess the more affluent sections of town feel better about the country," he observed...
...No one, however, appears to be paying conservatives much mind...
...Voted in as the new nickname was "Robber Barons...
...God & British TV Sunday evenings between 6:15 and 7:50 o'clock is known in British television as the "God slot," that "aimless" time when, in The Economist's words, pundits, parsons and pop stars are supposed to keep young and old aware of the religious dimension of life...
...JOHN DEEDY-century railroad mogul...
...There were those who felt that he protested too much . . . not his innocence...
...Stanford is named for its founder, Le-land Stanford, a nineteenth-century railroad mogul...
...Seems the practice started fights between those who stood and those who sat...
...If, however, there is some dependence," he pleaded, "it is mine on the document and not the other way around...
...A revised rate structure for first-class delivery, with a sliding scale of rates pegged to distance the letter travels...
...GR, a newsletter for marketing, sates, advertising and media executives, sees the confrontation leading to radical changes in the Postal Service over a three-to-five-year period...
...Alas and Alack Henry VIII, understandably, is no great favorite with Women's Lib...
...An increase in the number of mail classifications (e.g., business mail - zip coded, legible, standard-sized, pre-sorted-to be separated from consumer correspondence...
...Douglas Woodruff, writing in The Tablet of London, has unearthed another black mark against him: "In his regulation about reading the Bible, chained in churches or elsewhere, he encourages it for all men except servingmen, but only for women of the upper class, of education and leisure to instruct themselves so that they do not misunderstand what they read...
...A controversy has now developed over the swap...
...The bargaining proceeds, with conservative "churchmen" fearful that the halving of the "God slot" is the beginning of the end of religion on British television...
...Postal Service, says Gallagher Report, what with the projection of a $1.4-bil-lion deficit for the current fiscal year (despite January's 30 percent hike in first-class rates and boosts in other classes), and with service cutbacks for 25 major cities...
...Cited particularly were parallelisms involving paragraphs 8 and 9 of the Declaration expressing the Church's traditional condemnation of homosexual acts and masturbation...
...The Vatican press sped out a statement, professedly at the request of Cardinal Palazzini, to the effect that the egg came before the chicken...
...his alleged plagiarism...
...NEWS& VIEWS Which Came First . . . ? There were red faces at the Vatican after several Italian newspapers and magazines called attention to striking similarites between passages in the Declaration on Certain Questions Concerning Sexual Ethics, issued last January by the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, and an earlier book, Life and Christian Virtue by Cardinal Pietro Palazzini...
...Under consideration at the same time is a further revision of rates, which, says GR, could triple the average second-class mail costs...
...Stanford University students recently changed ther athletic teams' nickname, voting out "Indians" after 40 years for being offensive and a caricature...
...A service charge for at-door delivery (current estimates place annual delivery costs at up to $80 per household vs...
...19 for pick-up at post office "cluster boxes...
...Palazzini- was a consultor to the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith when preparatory work began on the Declaration...
...the BBC is holding for "less, but better" time...
Vol. 103 • April 1976 • No. 8