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Replies from 2,639 public-school systems throughout the country showed that 1,931 (73.2%) had no religious instruction program. Of these, a sixth had recently abandoned such programs. Commonest reason: last year's Supreme Court decision. Nonetheless, more schools (about 13%) had religious education than...
...some form, poliomyelitis is probably one of the commonest diseases. Current medical opinion is that nearly everybody gets it, but usually in so mild a form that it seems to be only a sick headache, or a low fever, not unlike a cold. Millions of such cases are never recognized. The lucky victim, once his system has thrown off the virus, appears to be immune to further attacks...
Because the nonmalignant fibroid, or fibromyoma, of the uterus is by far the commonest tumor among women, says Dr. Frank, "the health, happiness and future morale of many a patient will rest on the tact, insight and kindliness with which the attending physician . . . enlightens her about [its] presence ... An incautious 'You have large fibroids . . . which must come out at once' may produce panic and ... in due time she will find an operator willing to mutilate her without valid indications." In the same issue of the Journal...
...editors of the New Gould, which took five years to prepare and cost $287,000, sanction three pronunciations of gynecology: with the first syllable as "jin" (favored in Philadelphia), or as "guy" (commonest in New York), or as "jy" (scattered). The volume also recognizes the fact that a Bostonian has his bellyache in his o&-domen, while most other Americans get theirs an accent lower-in the abdomen...
...discernible number of those who buy The Seven Storey Mountain feel themselves called to contemplation. In Boston, where booksellers estimate that 85% of Merton's buyers are Catholics, readers have objected that the faith he writes about is too emotional, and not sufficiently based on cold reason. Commonest objections of Boston Protestants: "A life of contemplation is all very fine, but it doesn't help solve any of the world's problems...