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Rioting between Hindus and Moslems had broken out again in Bengal. There was more burning and looting than killing, but the pattern was frighteningly like that of 1946. As in 1946, some of the worst scenes took place in filthy, plague-ridden Calcutta...
Canada was impressed with Ambassador Steinhardt from the moment he arrived in October 1948. Until then, many Canadians had always thought of the U.S. embassy as a rest home for weary U.S. diplomats or a testing ground for fledglings. Steinhardt fitted neither pattern. He was a successful Wall Street lawyer, a heavy contributor to Democratic campaigns, whom Franklin Roosevelt first rewarded with the ministry to Sweden. No mere fat cat, hard-driving Laurence Steinhardt immersed himself in his job, soon became a virtual career ambassador in one hot spot after another...
...free for the season after a few shots of ACTH. ¶ The "collagen diseases" (involving the connective tissues) are most responsive. Rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatic fever, which first put ACTH in the headlines (TIME, May 2), are placed in this group by many authorities. Several others follow the same pattern of quick relief, quick relapse when treatment is stopped.¶ Swollen lymph glands and nodes shrink visibly; even lymphatic leukemia (blood cancer) is slowed for a while...
...this civilization? "The awakening of Western Europe that is normally called the Renaissance,'1 says Seitz, "brought something into the lives of men that had never before existed . . . The basic idea was that the minds of men should not be bounded in the larger sense by any pattern of dogma or tradition, but should be free to explore all aspects of life in all fields without restraint...
...Terrible, Seitz points out, did not participate in the Renaissance. "The 1917 Revolution seemed at first to be a step which would greatly accelerate the process of Westernization . . . [But] the Soviet leaders have 'abandoned the idea of the Renaissance and are now in the process of developing a pattern of culture as burdened with dogma as . . . anything known in the past millennium...