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...special message from the Mother Church's board of directors set the keynote: "Painless progress can be made by he individual and by humanity as a hole." A bushel of recent cases of Christian Science healing were read to the gathering-including total recovery from poliomyelitis, abdominal cancer, rheumatic ever, dislocated hips diagnosed as beyond recovery and accident injuries pronounced tal. No membership figures are ever issued, but what figures there were showed the faith to be flourishing; 34 new branches were established...
...Grantly Dick Read's theories may be stated in rather flowery, idealized, overemphatic terms, but the fact remains that natural childbirth can be (as it was for me) a truly thrilling, uplifting and relatively painless experience . . . While it is true that "deepseated anxieties" (as well as the presence of certain physical conditions) render some women unable to successfully have their babies in this fashion, those who are able to witness and fully experience the birth and first moments of life of their babies are indeed fortunate...
...than a century of medical progress designed to make childbirth a "more comfortable and happy event" is being slighted in the current craze for "natural childbirth," says a team of four Baltimore physicians. "It is no longer considered smart talk at the bridge table to discuss twilight sleep or painless labor," the doctors* say in Psychosomatic Medicine. "The woman of the day is one who can vividly describe every last detail of her delivery, including the ecstasy of the unassisted expulsion of the placenta...
...American friends a good mark to shoot at. The Rev. Julian Victor Langmead Cas-serley, 43, is a cheerful scholar who this year took over the chair of dogmatic theology at Manhattan's General Theological Seminary (Episcopalian). His new book is a readable discussion, reinforced with some painless history lessons, about the broad problems of Christianity in the 20th century world...
...painless way to vary one's food and one's friends at the same time, interhouse eating has rapidly become a favorite University institution. Free trade in diners is now an accepted practice in all University halls except one--Harkness Commons. Since the practice of signing in undergraduates on board at other houses is taboo at Harkness, a graduate student must pay at least $1.15 every time he brings a House resident as his guest...