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...same length of time, in the same year and at the same hour . . . and, at regular intervals, all alike, in the same rigid groups, performed precisely the same practical exercises, attended the same quizzes and submitted to the same monthly, semi-annual and annual examinations. Anything more alien to the spirit of scientific or modern medicine or to University life could hardly be contrived...
...they stand around only recognizing. Gestures of peace were made between Holworthy and Stoughton. Beers were shared, Arms were flung over alien shoulders. The rope was neatly coiled and placed beside Stoughton. The Geistgauge registered Ponca City, Oklahoma...
...policy of Burma's Strongman General Ne Win is to "purify" his country of alien influence by ousting foreign businessmen, teachers and journalists. Now it is the missionaries' turn. This week the last non-Burmese Protestant ministers, their stay permits having expired, will leave the country; by the end of the year, all foreign-born Roman Catholic priests and nuns will also be forced...
Until then, there is a small danger that in their enthusiasm to borrow from alien traditions, Catholic and Protestant experimenters may pass each other in opposite directions. Recently, an Episcopal priest gleefully told Diekmann how his own church had taken to the new practice of genuflecting during the Creed and the consecration of the elements. Diekmann heaved a weary sigh: Catholicism is just at the point of discarding the genuflection altogether...
...capt.): 2. Ian Gardiner; 3. Jacques Flechter; 4. Eric Sigward; 5. Curt Canning; 6. Andy Larkin; 7. Brian Clemow; stroke, Clint Alien; cox, Paul Hoffman...