Americans in all walks of life are being buried under an avalanche of lawsuits. ... The mountain of litigation is growing so fast that no one knows how big the case load is. The number of lawsuits filed in this country topped the 7-million mark last year, according to one estimate. But there is little doubt about the result: social and economic repercussions rippling through society, touching virtually every aspect of American life in one way or another, often for the worse.
When The Mother Church, The First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts, holds its Annual Meeting at the beginning of June, in accordance with Church By-Laws members hear reports from its Clerk, Treasurer, and Committees.
An airport, this gathering place of people on the move—business men and women, vacationers, grandparents visiting distant families—is a vivid symbol of this late-twentieth-century world.
