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...office has changed drastically, partly because the chief executive's job has become so burdensome that genuine help from the Vice President might be highly useful, but more obviously, because John Kennedy's assassination has dramatized the fact that the Vice President really must be considered the President's heir. Both Agnew and Nixon now face the challenge of erasing the doubts about the 39th Vice President and preparing him for the potential role his office is designed to fill...
Simons is equally unimpressed by another traditional argument for infallibility: that the Apostles in their teaching had the special protection of the Holy Spirit, and that the church is heir to that divine guidance. Whenever the Apostles call upon the Paraclete for assistance, he points out, it is only to refresh their recollections about details of Christ's ministry, and never to appeal for "proof that their teaching is true." Simons cites Jesus' declaration in John 14:26: "The Holy Spirit will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all that I have said...
Died. Julius Fleischmann, 68, heir to the Fleischmann liquor fortune, who used his wealth to help finance the Ballet Russe, Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera and numerous Broadway plays (Pygmalion, 1946; Caesar and Cleopatra, 1949); of cancer; in Cincinnati...
...Such sins, he observes, are atonable, if at all, only in heaven-and only through a sense of guilt. The Germans, he believes, feel none. "How is it possible for them to make good again?" he asks. "The dead they can't repay. The dead family without an heir they can't repay. If they'd managed to kill every member of every family, they'd have nothing to repay...
...Archetype. As befits the familial heir,* Straus is not about to assume "a pensioner's schedule." He will head Macy's six-member executive committee, act as third man with Smiley and Molloy in a policy-making triumvirate...