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...track. There was a new engineer too: Banker George S. Moore, 65, longtime treasurer of the Met, who succeeded Anthony Bliss as president. Moore, who likes to arrive at his office at Manhattan's First National City Bank ahead of the money, took to telephoning Met General Manager Ru dolf Bing by 8:15 a.m. Wailed Bing, after one such early-morning dingaling: "George, please! Why don't you go make your first million for the day before you call...
...change was imminent at the other end of the European ideological map. Last week Madrid buzzed with the ru mor that Francisco Franco was about to give his nation a new constitution at last. This week Franco will call an extraordinary session of the Cortes which, later this month, will accept a new "institutional law" and put it to the people in a referendum before year...
...election, but was toppled by Demirel on a budget vote in February (a caretaker regime has ruled since). The 82-year-old former Premier, chagrined at Demirel's rising popularity, is trying to stage a comeback with an anti-American-and pro-Soviet-stance. As a ru|e, Turks are conservative voters, but Inönü's tactics may win support in a land that has grown increasingly touchy in its relations with the U.S. Many Turks are still angry at Lyndon Johnson's refusal last year to help Turkey win its way in Cyprus...
...that it cuts to the root of Israel's schizophrenia as a modern, secular state whose laws are strongly influenced by a minority of observant Orthodox Jews as their price for remaining in the coalition with the governing Mapai. In 1960 the Interior Ministry, dominated by Orthodox Jews, ru'ed that the Halacha would determine whether an immigrant could enter Israel under the 1950 Law of Return, which makes any Jew automatically eligible for citizenship...
...administrator or church politician but a pastor, a father-in-God whose task is less to change the world now, and more to prepare men's hearts and minds for Christ's coming. Although he reads and absorbs such radical theo logians as Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Ru dolf Bultmann, he preaches an oldfashioned, timeless spirituality that echoes the language of the Authorized Version. "By sophisticated attempts to be contemporary at all costs," he said once, "we blunt the force that lies in the universal imagery of the Bible: bread, water, light, darkness, wind, fire, rain, hunger, thirst...