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...message from Pope Paul expressing ecumenical affirmation, and in the form of 15 Catholics invited as nonvoting observers. The Council has also attempted to spur Christians into doing more about the ills of this world; its 1966 Geneva Conference on Church and Society, for example, stands as a landmark of clerical involvement in secular problems...
...explain--or even just to analyze--the thrust of his campaign. In their zeal to discuss Joe McCarthy and wiretapping, editorial writers somehow forgot that Bob Kennedy defended the right of Americans to send material aid to North Vietnam and fought bills to cut back the Supreme Court's landmark criminal procedure decisions. They refused to admit that the Bob Kennedy who relentlessly exposed the costs of labor racketeering was the same man who assaulted apartheid on it's home territory. They seemed to forget that the drive for a nuclear non-proliferation treaty began only after Kennedy publicly raised...
John H. Finley has been Master of Eliot House for 26 years. His interest in his men of Eliot is legendary, as is his metaphorical approach to thinking and speaking. Finley was one of the principal authors of the landmark report "General Education in a Free Society...
...result is a wave of construction projects resembling so many concrete-and-steel layer cakes. Manhattan's new Madison Square Garden is part of a development built on air rights atop Penn Station. Chicago's four-year-old circular Marina City apartment complex, already a city landmark, is built above the tracks of the Chicago and North Western Railway. In Newton, Mass., work began this month on a $40 million development-consisting, to start with, of a motel, a nine-story office building and a 650-car garage-that will straddle the bustling Massachusetts Turnpike...
...kept their criticisms of the Report very quiet. Daniel Patrick Moynihan ,director of the Joint Center for Urban Studies and author of the controversial Moynihan Report on the Negro family, at first refused to comment on the findings of the Riot Commission Report. Later he called the Report "a landmark in race relations" and commented that there were no Negroes in the Commission's research division. "I'm not sure this analysis would have been done by Negro social scientists," he said. But Moynihan prefers to emphasize the "scandalous" reaction of the President whose most extensive comment on the Report