Words & Works

P: India's Deputy Home Affairs Minister Balwant Nagesh Datar announced that during the past two years 789 U.S. missionaries had been approved for entry to India and 109 had been turned down on the ground that their services "were not required."

P: Father Johannes Schwertfirm, Roman Catholic pastor in the Bavarian town of Ober-Teisendorf was in trouble with the law. Again and again, he had vainly asked the authorities for permission to enlarge his church, built in 1429 and far too small for his present congregation. Turned down because of the church's historical value, Father Schwertfirm, 63, carefully removed the church's holy objects, then set off the explosives he had planted and blew up the building. His sentence: two months in jail.

P: Dr. George Arthur Buttrick, pastor of Manhattan's Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church, hung some crape for the students of Millsaps College in Jackson, Miss.: "We have explored the planet to learn its secrets, and . . . our ills have multiplied so greatly that our mental hospitals cannot contain them," he gloomed. "It is poetic justice that a generation which has been seeking its own life now has to talk about itself in a psychiatrist's office."

P: The Episcopal diocese of Washington, D.C. unanimously adopted a petition to remove the 1955 General Convention of the Episcopal Church from Houston, where it is currently scheduled. Reason: Houston practices racial segregation. In case the plea fails, the resolution pledged the Washington delegates to "share, so far as is humanly possible, any discriminatory disadvantages borne by Negro delegates."

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