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Historian Arnold Toynbee, in A Study of History, referred to the Jewish religion as a "fossil," and further nettled Jews by blaming the Old Testament's exclusivism for what he views as the evil intolerance of Christianity. In the current number of the journal Issues, published by the anti-Zionist American Council for Judaism, Historian Toynbee changes his tune-or at least transposes it to a different key. Judaism, he now says, is performing a pioneering role in the development of a religion for the Atomic...
Khrushchev Disease. In the U.S., few strong voices were predicting imminent recession, but there was concern over the failure of business to move forward energetically. Boston Fund, Inc., a mutual fund, reported that it is "not too optimistic" about the economy. Banking, journal of the American Bankers Association, blamed the lack of boom spirit in the economy on the uncertainties of the November election and on "Khrushchev disease, a sort of exquisitely planned economic and political confusion." From Detroit came the gloomiest reading of all. Writing of the national housing picture in Midwest Housing Markets, President Irving Rose of Advance...
...difference, reports a research team headed by Dr. Heinz F. Eichenwald at Manhattan's New York Hospital, is not in the staphylococci or the babies but in a mysterious third factor. In the American Journal of Diseases of Children, Dr. Eichenwald suggests that this factor operates independently of the staph. It consists, he suspects, of assorted viruses commonly found in the human respiratory tract. How these viruses team with the bacteria to act as a spreading agent is not known, but they do the job so effectively that a single cloud baby can readily infect a whole room...
...baby was born at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital. In the New England Journal of Medicine, Drs. Mathew H. Gault and Robert Usher report that, despite a difficult breech delivery, he seemed normal and healthy and began breathing spontaneously. But by the time he was taken to the nursery, he was pale and limp. The electrocardiogram was taken by happenstance: the hospital was making a study of heart action in prematures, and this baby seemed to have been about a month premature. The startling ECG finding alerted the doctors to the possibility of serious illness. When the baby turned...
...take over Leslie's old job is an editor who can be expected to follow the Ledger-Dispatch's traditional policies: William H. Fitzpatrick, 52, a Pulitzer prizewinning editor for the New Orleans States and for the past eight years an editorial writer on the Wall Street Journal...