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In my opinion, your article on smokeless tobacco [MEDICINE, July 15] was short on facts and long on emotionalism and innuendo. You totally ignored the large body of public testimony by eminent medical experts about the lack of scientific justification for health-warning labels on the products. I thought it...
DIED. Eugene Carson Blake, 78, eminent American liberal churchman who as chief executive of a Presbyterian denomination (1951-66), president of the National Council of Churches (1954-57) and general secretary of the World Council of Churches (1966-72) used his salesman's savvy, administrator's organizing skills and diplomat...
Falk examines two factions of the Pharisees, a group of pious Jews who believed in the resurrection of the dead, rewards and punishments for this life in the next and rabbinic authority to interpret Jewish law. These two parties, the School of Hillel and the School of Shammai, clashed shortly...
DIED. WALTER HOPPS, 72, visionary museum curator and influential advocate of American art, particularly the Los Angeles avant garde; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. The first to create a museum exhibition for Frank Stella and a retrospective of Dadaist Marcel Duchamp, Hopps opened the Ferus Gallery with artist Ed Kienholz...
Particularly interesting are the varied opinions of eminent scholars and leaders of the time. Former University President Charles E. Eliot, Class of 1853, protested The Birth of a Nation and headed the NAACP’s campaign to remove the most offensive scenes from the film; conversely, President Woodrow Wilson?...