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...University of Arizona, where he played on the basketball team, graduated from law school. During World War II he served as a 6-24 gunner in Italy. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1954. Udall won Jack Kennedy's special regard last year by fighting hard and effectively for labor-reform legislation along Kennedy lines. An early Kennedy-for-President man, Udall helped Kennedy win Arizona's 17 Democratic Convention votes, which Texas Lyndon Johnson counted safely for his own. In a bitter fight for re-election this year, Udall survived a Republican whispering campaign...
Hope & Specifics. If Dr. Blake's plan could be translated into practice, the new church would have 17,800,000 members (see box), approximately equaling the Baptists. According to the best estimates, it would take a minimum of ten years to put the plan into effect. This seemed still a bit hasty to Episcopal Layman Charles P. Taft (younger brother of the late Senator Robert A.), who plumped for a slower, looser merger. And Bishop Gerald Kennedy of Los Angeles, president of the Methodist Council of Bishops, thought the Blake proposal vague...
...near. The end is near." Doctors agreed; the patient was suffering from an intense, intractable form of bronchial asthma in which the contractions of the bronchial tubes become almost continuous and the lungs are starved for air. Antibiotics, Adrenalin, steroid hormones and oxygen had been given without effect. Finally, the University of Aberdeen's Dr. A. H. C. Sinclair-Gieben took over. His specialty: hypnosis...
...necessarily show the ailment to be psychological in origin. Many asthma victims act sicker than they really are, but the Scottish patient was a "welladjusted individual" who displayed "no signs of psychiatric breakdown." Rather, says Sinclair-Gieben, it shows that hypnosis can exert a physical as well as psychological effect: "It is widely believed that conditions responding to hypnosis must of necessity be wholly psychologically determined. However, in other conditions-for example, organic pain and warts-it has been demonstrated that hypnosis can influence an accepted physical disease entity. Clearly, hypnosis appears to draw on some unknown...
...list of acceptable plays and choose directors for them from a list of acceptable directors--prepared, of course, by the Committee. This was done to avoid the inefficiency and wasted effort which have, since the construction of the Loeb Drama Center, hampered the selection of plays. The unfortunate effect of this new change--designed to reform genuine abuses--is to give the Committee total control of organized undergraduate drama...