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...from doctors to home economists, will spend more than $500,000 this year to operate some 60 projects, including the supplying of 6,500 loaves of bread every day to supplement a Saigon school-lunch program. Some Protestant groups also support their own private assistance programs. The Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service will spend $268,700 this year to operate, among other endeavors, a 38-bed hospital and a school of nursing. The conservative Worldwide Evangelization Crusade sponsors the Happy Haven Leprosarium in Danang...
...tens of thousands of Seventh-Day Adventists in Southern California suffer from most of the same diseases as their non-Adventist neighbors, including cancer. Yet on the average, the Adventist men live longer. Most conspicuously, they have only one-fourth as much lung disease as other Californians...
...doctors studied the five-year health records of 11,000 Adventist men over age 30. Among the 850 deaths, only nine were due to lung cancer, whereas 56 such deaths would have been predicted from statewide aver ages. Furthermore, none of the nine who had been killed by lung cancer had been a lifelong Adventist-all had joined the sect after years of smoking. Drs. Lemon and Walden have yet to find a single case of typical lung cancer in an Adventist who never smoked...
...halt every current criminal case in the entire state. Did it also void every current indictment issued by grand juries that had been forced to swear their belief in God? On Oct. 21, the court said yes in the case of a 16-year-old Seventh-day Adventist charged with rape-thus tossing 3,000 cases back for reindictment, 1,000 of them for retrial as well...
Bookkeeper & Glassblower. This year, 20 contestants were in Jerusalem for the finals, each a winner of competitions in his homeland. There was a chicken farmer from New Zealand, a paratroop major from the Belgian army, an Italian glassblower, a Seventh-day Adventist bookkeeper from Brazil, a Swiss electrician. From the U.S. came Polish-born Samuel Joshua Singer, 58, a onetime Yeshiva student and a former assistant attorney general of New York State. France sent a professional Scriptural scholar, Roman Catholic Abbe Raymond Seguineau, 42, who is preparing a Bible concordance; Finland's champion was blonde, blue-eyed Irja Immonen...