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...from all causes while on duty, although only a very small percentage were actual battle casualties. Of those that came back, 446 were found to be unalterably affected by their war experience. At the Army's dog retraining center at Fort Robinson, Neb., they were destroyed, with the consent of their owners. They had become incorrigible killers...
...Calver can do is to nag his clients to eat hot lunches, watch their weight and have yearly checkups. The Navy recently made Dr. Calver a temporary rear admiral and his grateful patients have passed a bill forbidding the Navy to transfer him without consent of the Congress...
...from "the Christian conception of marriage," the Archbishop pointed out the mounting pile of divorce pleas on Britain's dockets.* Said he: "Marriage is no longer regarded . . . either as a sacrament or as a holy estate, but as a contract which can be broken fairly easily by mutual consent. The old idea of marriage is gone, and with it divorce is condoned...
Next day, Ohio's cautious, conservative Robert Alphonso Taft added that maybe the idea might work-if every country allowed United Nations policemen to nose around for signs of atomic activity. But many doubted that Soviet Russia, for one, would ever consent to international snooping...
Sitting in on the discussions will be nine industrialists chosen by the National Association of Manufacturers, nine chosen by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, eight delegates from A.F. of L., eight from C.I.O., one each from the United Mine Workers and Railroad Brotherhoods. Their chairman, chosen by mutual consent, will be North Carolina's Judge Walter Parker Stacy, a sober and fair-minded arbiter of many a past labor dispute...