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...what churchly or architectural authority does the FORUM writer decide that wild and different design is an "advance" in accomplishing the function of church (exterior) design? The church is a continuing institution. Most churches (99% of them) are not eager to express in their design aberrations of the current fear and confusion and secularism which characterizes much of our current life...
...fact, on current domestic programs, the President was proposing an increase of about $1 billion from last year - chiefly for more social welfare. Did all of this look like too much in view of the imbalance of funds and the ponderous costs of defense? If the President was worried about anything it was "not whether we are doing too much but whether the budgetary requirements [for defense] have constrained us to undertake too little toward . . . the realization of our country's great potential development...
...Siberia and in the arctic wastes of the Soviet Union, millions of song-loving Russians are working in forced labor camps. With words and music, they too describe their bitter life and express their longing for home. In the current issue of the Russian-language Paris magazine Narodnaya Pravda, many of their songs are set down by an exile who calls himself S. Yurasov...
Alcoholism appears to be growing into a bigger & bigger U.S. health problem. Reporting in the current Journal of Clinical Psychopathology, Dr. Robert V. Seliger, chief psychiatrist of the Neuropsychiatric Institute of Baltimore, writes: "This behavior illness . . ." causes ravages "worse and more varied than those of any other specific known medical or psychiatric sickness. The toll it takes each year in lives, due to alcoholically induced accidents; in happiness, due to marital and family life upheavals . . . and in actual cash, from the home budget to state and federal funds, is a toll greater than we can calculate...
...other hand, the second part of the Council's current quandary is its own fault. It claims that all these decisions should come to it for approval, but it apparently has been operating on an agreement--and a pretty vague one at that--which was made only with the Dean's Office. This agreement was made under an earlier administration, and Dean Bender--to say nothing of the Provost--cannot be severely taxed for no following a system that is badly in need of being redefined and brought up the date...