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...medical science an answer to the increase of lung cancer? Some doctors have urged wholesale chest X rays of the population at large, and especially of men over 45. But last week the American Roentgen Ray Society heard a vigorous dissent...
HESTER LILLY AND TWELVE SHORT STORIES, by Elizabeth Taylor (210 pp.; Viking; $3). In this collection-a novelette and a dozen short stories-British Novelist Elizabeth Taylor (A Wreath of Roses, The Sleeping Beauty) takes stock characters, and with hairline precision asserts a small but significant dissent from the stock notions of them. She disconcerts the common sentimental concept of blindness with the story of a rough, tough old horse dealer gone blind, who finds himself isolated and bewildered in a "home," where the matron refuses to read him the racing news. In the predictable tensions of the novelette...
...rights to uphold, to discuss and dissent are the moral fiber of America's greatness. They are likewise the strength of a great university...
...return of the communions to ... the pure, unchanged and common heritage of the forefathers . . . shall alone produce the desired reunion . . . The Holy Orthodox Church alone has preserved in full and intact 'the faith once delivered to the saints.' " But no one thought that this generally foreseen dissent changed the picture. Norway's Bishop Eivind Berggrav, ruffed like a Holbein portrait in starchy white, pointed his sermon at the "ecumaniacs" who looked for some kind of nonpapal Rome to be built in a day. "There are people," he said, "who simply get angry . . . because the churches...
...Dissent. In Phoenix, Ariz., Judge Ralph Barry charged that Fred Q. Reed, angered by the court's community-property settlement between Reed and his former wife, followed him out of the courtroom, crumpled the judge's straw hat, kicked him in the seat of the pants...