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...long time now, the chief ceremonial function of Memorial Day has been simply to inform Americans that their summer has begun. Of course, residual touches of drum-thumping Americana still cling to the occasion-men in deep middle age parading up and down the holiday, strutting the flag. It is a formal rite of remembering, but remembering at a major distance. In their V.F.W. or American Legion caps the old soldiers have long since made peace with their generation's war. They have worn their memories of combat smooth with the retelling. They have grown easy with what they...
...muscle cells, an atherosclerotic plaque develops and the artery narrows. Platelets continue to congregate and may eventually help create a clot that completely blocks blood flow. Says DeWitt Goodman of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons: "There is good reason to think if you interfere with platelet function you might reduce the chance of heart attack or stroke, but it is not 100% proved...
...changed the internal politics of his homeland, Communist Poland. Within the Roman Catholic Church he has striven dramatically to end the era of flux, confusion and experimentation that followed the Second Vatican Council of 1962-65. He is also ebulliently engaged in transforming the image, and even the function, of the venerable office that he holds. At 61 this week, he is still young for a reigning Pope. He has the physique of a former quarryman, chemical factory hand and outdoorsman. If his strength carries him through this crisis, he is likely to use that vigor once again...
When Mitterrand officially takes over power from Giscard on May 21, his first act as President will be to select a Premier from a number of candidates. The new President and his Premier will then name a Cabinet, which will function as a "transitional" government. Mitterrand has stated that this first Cabinet will consist of "those who have supported" him -which Socialists say excludes the Communists, whose backing did not come until the second round...
First, freedom of advertising, while often preverse in its execution, fulfills a vital function in any social democracy. In spite of the taint of money, advertising boils down to advocacy, and to deny its importance is "ludicrously and condescendingly" to defy liberal precets...