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...Gilliland family plan had been made 18 months earlier, after hearing Dr. John H. Galbreath, pastor at Westminster Presbyterian Church, preach about corneal transplants as a way "to live on usefully after death." Willard Gilliland, a solid, civic-minded man (he was safety and security director for Aluminum Co. of America) talked it over with his wife and elder children. They agreed to donate their corneas to the Eye Bank of Pittsburgh...
...over his death rages, Buddhist leaders have ruled out further suicides until they can again reap the full propaganda advantage. Waiting in the wings, however, are three more suicide volunteers, including an aged Buddhist nun. Not intimidated, Diem's sister-in-law, Mme. Ngo Dinh Nhu, continued to preach the hard line against the Buddhists. "If they burn 30 women, we will go ahead and clap our hands," said Mme. Nhu. "We cannot be responsible for their madness...
...Church of England in the 18th century has been justly described as "the Tory Party at prayer"; clerics still sigh over the Anglican failure to preach effectively to the city workers of the Industrial Revolution. Now even its impact on members of the Establishment seems minimal. The upright men among England's Top People live morally because a gentleman should do so, and not, so it seems, because the church tells them to. And among the passionate playboys of Mayfair-as the Profumo case suggests-a mention of the ethical teachings of the Church of England would seem...
...Western journalists who happened to read it, the snarls they got in the monthly magazine Sovetskaya Pechat (Soviet Press) were hardly a surprise. The author was Aleksei Adzhubei, editor of Izvestia and son-in-law of Nikita Khrushchev. Beware your Western colleagues, said the suspicious editor. They preach the preposterous idea that there can be a peaceful coexistence of ideologies...
According to legend, the first statue of the Buddha was done during his own lifetime. He had "arrived at complete Enlightenment* and ascended into Heaven to preach the Law for the benefit of his mother," but after about three months he returned to earth to find that his friend Udayana, King of Kausambi, an ancient realm in India, had ordered a statue made of him in sandalwood...