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...almost 30 tons of it have been given in 30,000 transfusions since the method was first tried there in 1930. U.S. doctors have shied away from it because of prejudice against contact with anything taken from a corpse. The Pontiac pathologists hoped that this prejudice was weakening with wider acceptance of corneal grafting and the transplanting of bone and arteries from accident victims...
...Typical of its thoroughness have been two cover stories, one on Christian missionaries from St. Paul to 1960 (April 18, 1960), another on U.S. Catholics and the State (John Courtney Murray, Dec. 12, 1960). Both are examples of the splendid method in which TIME has sought to bring the wider perspective of history to contemporary religious action and issues...
...Corbusier's reach was always to exceed his grasp. He was thinking of architecture not only in terms of this or that building, but of everything within the building- 'every detail of household furnishing, the street as well as the house and the wider world beyond." With an artist's bland disregard for the inertia of others, Le Corbusier drew up a master plan for a "Contemporary City of Three Million Inhabitants...
...wider implications of what the President said are even more disturbing than his specific hypocrisies. He assumed that the Cold War has brought about a crisis in relations between the government and the press, that this crisis is in large part the press's fault, and that the greatest service newspapers can reader in the national interest is to restrict voluntarily their coverage of the Cold War. If anything, the Cuban affair demonstrates that the "crisis" is exactly the reverse of what Kennedy imagines it to be. It is that the American public is not being given enough information...
...ruthless years of fire and sword. But as the centuries rolled on, they have had a measure of revenge against the Roman Catholic Church. The hatred generated by the crusade prepared the way for Protestantism. And in modern France, where popular apostasy from Catholicism is today wider and deeper than anything Pope Innocent could have imagined, the ancient heresy of Catharism is enjoying a remarkable revival of interest...