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...118th meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago attracted some 9,000 scientists who brought along a staggering total of 1,181 papers. The chemists and chemical engineers were pleased by progress in production and use of cortisone and ACTH, delighted by reports on improved petroleum weapons in man's war against the insects, but worried about a major problem of the atomic age: safe disposal of deadly radioactive waste material...
...Saints arrived in Chicago on Mormon business bent. The 2,000 Mormons who live in and around Chicago and Wisconsin were also happy. Heretofore shepherded by Mormon missionaries, they became full-fledged members of the Church last Sunday when President Grant organized their territory into Mormonism's 118th "Stake" or bishopric. It was the second such district set up east of the Mississippi River, New York having become the first Stake two years ago (TIME...
Last week the American Bible Society held its 118th annual meeting, in Bible House. Manhattan. During the year it distributed 7,800,766 Bibles, Testaments and scriptural excerpts in 155 languages and dialects. Though this total was 266,390 fewer than the year before, the distribution of whole Bibles increased 78,597 or 50%. The Society's income jumped from...
Theological Seminary, important because it is a prime school of the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. A. as well as the denomination's oldest, held its 118th exercises. Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, important because it is the doctrinal incubator for those dissident Fundamentalists who broke away from Princeton last year (TIME, Aug. 5), held its first exercises...
...Pierian Sodality of 1808, the University orchestra, will open its 118th season with a concert at the Copley Theatre this afternoon at 3.30 o'clock. For a number of years the concert at the Copley has been one of the chief annual activities of the organization...