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High Noon? The U.S., as President Johnson reiterated in June, "seeks no wider war." Yet even as it tried to shush Khanh, American officialdom privately conceded anew that retaliation against the north has not been ruled out. At least three turns of events could trigger direct retaliation against North Viet Nam's Ho Chi Minh: 1) assassination of Khanh by the Viet Cong, 2) a renewed terrorist campaign against...
...Wider Mission. The aims of Sister Formation are not narrowly professional or narrowly Catholic. According to Sister Annette Walters, the Minnesota psychologist who has been its executive director since 1960, the conference seeks to integrate a nun's spiritual and educational training. One current debate within the conference involves this spiritual training; some religious superiors, like Mother Regina of the Sisters of Mercy, believe that the conference should take its norms from the zealous Better World Movement, founded by Italian Jesuit Riccardo Lombardi...
Sister Formation believes that nuns should take a wider and more active mission role in the world. Thus nuns majoring in sociology at Marillac spend long hours in St. Louis courts learning how the law operates, and those at Mundelein study civil rights and the psychology of poverty. In pursuit of higher education, nuns sometimes exchange their habits for dresses (as did the Columbia student who toured Russia) or get ecclesiastical permission to study writers, such as Sartre and Gide, whose works are on Rome's Index of Forbidden Books. And when nuns go on to graduate school, says...
...According to highway experts," Bernays added, "the increased traffic produced by the underpasses, wider than the drive, will necessitate the drive's being widened within a year into an expressway...
...says Lorenz, himself an articulate and analytical executive. Now that his division's Comet and luxury Lincoln are running smoothly, he will concentrate on tuning up the medium-priced Mercury. Hoping to emulate the success of competing Pontiac, he wants to give Mercury a distinctive "personality," offer a wider range of models...