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Last week Dr. Sabin (TIME, May 23, 1955) announced that he was ready to start wider-scale field trials with a vaccine that is in almost every respect the opposite to Salk's. It is made from "attenuated" virus-particles incapable of producing paralysis but strong enough to stimulate immunizing antibodies. This virus is used live. It is given by mouth in a single dose. Dr. Sabin has already tried it on 130 prisoner-volunteers, needs thousands of subjects for fuller proof of its safety and efficacy...
...Philadelphia's Third U.S. Court of Appeals and former governor of the Virgin Islands, was a likely candidate. At presidential press conferences, reporters badgered Ike on the possibilities of a Southern appointee to salve bitter feelings over the segregation issue, or perhaps a New Englander, to get a wider geographical spread on the court...
...withdrawal of restrictive statutes and regulations, the cloak of due process under which the attackers of academic freedom operate. The best way to achieve this would seem to be for liberals to develop and state clearly the meanings and implications of "academic freedom," in the hope that a wider understanding will develop, capable of withstanding any resurgence of these malignant attacks and attackers...
...admitting Gentiles to salvation. But the Pauline emphasis on the resurrection was "an even greater difference. The Covenanters of Qumran were presumably still waiting for the Resurrection of their Master when they were swept away . . . But by then the basic elements of their faith had been given a far wider setting, and a significance for all mankind...
...Chasm. Measuring man's religions with this rule, Toynbee finds the modern world riven by a gulf even deeper and wider than that between the Communist and non-Communist worlds, namely, the chasm between "the whole Judaic group of ideologies and religions" on the one hand and the "Buddhaic group" (Hinduism, the Mahayana and Hinayana forms of Buddhism) on the other. For the East, like ancient Greece, sees history as cyclical, recurrent, and hence irrelevant, while Christianity, Judaism and Islam see it governed by Intellect and Will, i.e., God. But in assigning history this divine importance, they "have reopened...