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...Heroic Ten Minutes...
...appealing nature of his great public achievements, nor of the dazzling magic of his name. The vision, imagination, courage and initiative he has shown in regard to the supreme moral issue of our time-civil rights-and his practical initiative in advancing this cause are of heroic proportions." Wagner dismissed the matter of Bobby's nonresidence in New York with the lame observation that "New York State has taken to its bosom millions from abroad and from other parts of the country, giving our state constant infusions of new blood and renewals of vitality. All Americans are at home...
...Paul VI in Hungary, where he is still seeking to work out a modus vivendi for the Church. Paul has also established a new Secretariat for Non-Christian Religions, headed by Paolo Cardinal Marella of the Curia. In the past, the church has sometimes preferred noisy and heroic martyrdom rather than graceful surrender of ancient privileges. Now Rome, with Christian and Moslem Lebanon acting as intermediary, is trying to work out a "Tunisian formula" with Moslem-run Sudan, which this year abruptly exiled all of the country's Catholic and Protestant missionaries...
...Library of Congress, the unpublished papers of some of Hull's State Department colleagues. Pratt has written a spare, straightforward narrative that steers shy of judgments. But he does lead a reader to the inescapable conclusion that Hull-an amalgam of idealism, caution, and at times heroic stubbornness-was not up to the job of Secretary of State, even though he held it for nearly twelve years, longer than anyone else...
Brain surgeons are not uniformly enthusiastic about ultrasound and still rely heavily on X rays. But even skeptics concede that, as a first screening procedure, the new technique has the great advantage of simplicity and painlessness. It may spare many patients the heroic procedure of having air injected into the brain cavities (ventriculogra-phy). Some British neurosurgeons report better than 90% accuracy for ultrasound in determining whether a brain tumor or a hemorrhage is present, and if so, where...