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...Disciples, who number 1,800,000 in the U.S., have no formal set of beliefs or doctrines, but rather a broad concept of Christian unity, which is perhaps reflected in Johnson's own wide-ranging churchgoing habits. Since Nov. 22 he has worshiped at: Washington's National City Christian Church; the Harriet Chapel, a little Methodist church near Camp David, Md.; St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington; St. John's Episcopal Church, on Lafayette Square across from the White House; Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church in Washington; and St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg, Texas...
...concept of a modern-dress Hamlet has lost something of its shock value; for the setting of his current production, John Gielgud claims only the virtue of unobtrusiveness. The point of it, he says, is to have the play "unencumbered by an elaborate reconstruction of any historical period." The cast appears mostly in "rehearsal clothes"--slacks and sweaters, suits, and in one case, a garish red vest...
...term much advertised in Saigon and Washington nowadays is "clear and hold." It is the concept under which South Vietnamese Premier Nguyen Khanh proposes to roll back the Viet Cong by painstakingly securing small areas, then winning over the peasants through reforms. Last week TIME Correspondent Eric Pace visited one clear-and-hold project deep in the Mekong Delta, saw what the strategy can accomplish-and the huge obstacles to its success. His report...
Secretary of Labor W. Willard Wirtz last night pleaded for a concept of government and law that would allow for a fuller sense of public participation in "the decision-making process of society...
Considering outside grades in awarding Honors is not a new concept at Harvard. It is part of the procedure with Summa Cum Laude degrees. But at least one practical difficulty remains with the formula outlined above: "While it rewards a student for work outside his field, it may also destroy the record of, say, an adventurous English concentrator who decided to take a physics course. In this case the formula would narrow the educational scope it set out to widen...