■ For God’s sake don’t anyone tell Senator Birch Bayh about the German study of women murderers showing that their favorite weapon was the frying pan. Next thing you know “Saturday night skillets” will be banned and you’ll need a permit to flip your flapjack.
■ Andrei Sakharov reports that Soviet authorities have sentenced Georgii Vins, a Baptist minister, to five years in prison followed by five years in exile for “infringing the material rights” of other believers—i.e., accepting their contributions. Last fall, Sakharov had asked the World Council of Churches and the Synod, then meeting in Rome, of the Roman Catholic Church to intervene in Vins’s behalf. To the best of our knowledge, neither of them responded. Vins’s father, by the way, died in a prison camp in the Thirties.
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