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Physicians and insurance statisticians have made the mistake of looking too hard at the mortality tables, say the three authors in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The tables show more deaths among people whose blood pressure exceeds 140 mm. systolic and 90 mm. diastolic.* This fact is meaningless, they argue, because blood pressure usually increases naturally with age. So the thing to do is forget about an "ideal" reading, start with healthy people and accept their readings as normal...
...Those who say "they are not bound by the doctrine . . . which teaches that the mystical body of Christ and the Roman Catholic Church are one and the same things . . . [and] reduce to a meaningless formula the necessity of belonging to the true church in order to gain salvation...
...your go to the Harvard Archives on the fourth level of Lamont Library and take from the shelves the back issues of the Advocate, you will find that T. S. Eliot wrote fragile but rather meaningless verse for its pages, and Norman Mailer contributed stories whose characters were the crudest sort of obvious types. There is no telling where an undergraduate may go from those days when he's trying to find himself. Most of the writing in the Commencement Issue of the Advocate reflects some of the failings of this formative period, some of it shows promise...
...overseas talks would be more than just another regional conference. ECA and the North Atlantic Treaty had arrested the first wave of Communist expansion on the European front. The Red tide, meanwhile, had rolled unchecked over much of Asia. Western diplomats were learning that the front against Communism was meaningless unless worked out on a global basis...
...facultymen saw it, an oath under such compulsion was insulting, superfluous and meaningless to boot, because real Communists would not hesitate to sign it. Governor Earl Warren and President Robert Gordon Sproul, both ex officio members of the regents, sided with the faculty. Since professors already take the constitutional oath required of all state employees, argued Warren, they should not be singled out for another...