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Last week, not for the first time since U.S. servicemen arrived in Korea 19 years ago, the Korean mooses came under fire. In a letter distributed to 12,000 Lutheran pastors throughout the U.S., the director of an American service center in Seoul denounced "the age-old dangers of women and liquor" and concluded that "our young men aren't spiritually and morally ready for Korea." The Rev. Ernst W. Karsten, a mild-mannered Iowan of 59, charged that about 90% of the G.I.s in Korea consort with prostitutes regularly. "Many men have their steadies," Karsten reported. "Some...
...fist and remains disdainfully aloof at all times. But Steinberg treats his musicians with courtesy and respect, regales them with a rich sense of humor, rides in the bus with them on tour, and preaches such heresies as "gaiety is the only atmosphere for music making." As for the age-old maxim that deviations from the standard classical repertory spell box-office suicide, Steinberg persists season after season in offering one of the most adventuresome and widely varied pro grams in music...
...Brain Hemorrhages. A weak electrical current, suggests Irish-born Dr. Sean F. Mullan of the University of Chicago, may be the answer to an age-old problem: how to stop bleeding in a brain artery. These hemorrhages, usually at a spot where a cerebral artery has ballooned out and leaked or burst, are notoriously hard to shut off promptly. The most obvious plug for a burst artery is a blood clot, but with a clot the problem is how to make it and how to keep it from traveling and causing still more brain damage. Dr. Mullan and fellow workers...
...their attempts to bridge Europe's age-old nationalisms, Erhard, Segni and other European statesmen will crisscross the Continent in coming weeks. De Gaulle to the contrary, they are convinced that Europe's tenuous economic ties must be anchored in permanent political institutions if the Continent is not to remain forever a headless "torso...
Most significant of all, the age-old moral injunctions are less readily accepted by the young-partly because they sense that so many parents don't really believe in them either...