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...Tufts, director of Case Institute of Technology's management-training course, "has a center sag problem. It occurs about midway in the course, and students become frustrated and go into grousing sessions." To help relieve the shock of change, Case and several other schools, e.g., Harvard and Southern Methodist, now provide brief side courses for "management widows," in which wives get a fill-in on their husbands' studies so they will be able to talk over problems with them...
...child.* Other pediatricians doubted that so minute a dose would have any detectable effect, though some said they might give it to a baby with colic if the family had no other sedative in the house. The Rev. Dr. Albert P. Shirkey of Washington's Mount Vernon Place Methodist Church was outraged. "I feel it was a terrible blunder to prescribe 'toddies for toddlers,' " he intoned from the pulpit. "To give [alcohol] to children is to have them grow up with a taste for it-maybe a craving for it. Who knows but from so innocent...
...Methodist minister cannot serve God and a big corporation at the same time, especially if he is on the corporation's payroll, said Washington's Methodist Bishop G. (for Garfield) Bromley Oxnam at a Washington conference of ministers and laymen. Attacking the current trend toward "industrial chaplains," Bishop Oxnam insisted that "the minister as a paid employee is a contradiction in terms...
...this holiday season, the musical voice of Christmas carries to vacationers paddling beneath the surface of Miami pools (via underwater loudspeakers), to women in slenderizing salons, to celebrators in non-slenderizing saloons. In Philadelphia, worshipers can drop by the Arch Street Methodist Church and adjust a selector to the hymn of their choice. From the highest building in Salt Lake City, Christmas carols boom across the Salt Lake Valley. "I don't want to sound like Scrooge," complained an irate woman, "but damn it, I don't want to go without sleep until December 26th, either...
...Methodist and I give Senator John Kennedy my full support; this young man has a brilliant mind and a fine congressional record. It is the duty of every citizen to raise the declining prestige of America in the eyes of the world by overlooking racial and religious differences...