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...population explosion," high incidence of abortion, Christianity's occasional tendency to escape reality by taking refuge in tradition. Says the report: "The extremely high rates of abortion in many regions, Eastern and Western, with their toll of human suffering and violation of personality, testify to a tragic determination among parents to find some means, however bad, to prevent unwanted births." The committee added: "It must be confessed that in the past Christian thought has, especially in the area of the family and its relationships, often clung to tradition without taking into account new knowledge. In the current...
...Sicily, Italy, Belgium, France and Germany. He hung it in Korea in 1950, won a Pulitzer Prize for his coverage, won another in 1953 for his stories on President-elect Eisenhower's trip to the Korean front. His byline, as a top Associated Press reporter, was for years among the most widely known in the U.S. Last week globetrotting, leg-weary Newsman Don Whitehead, 51, hung his hat to stay. Its peg: Knoxville, Tenn.-the same city he had left as a rising young journalist 24 years ago to make the world his beat. His new assignment: columnist...
...showed off its new Edsel, Mercury and Lincoln lines. The Edsel has been completely redesigned for 1960, has lost the oval hole in the grille. Chrysler's Plymouth hit the showrooms with a new unitized-frame construction for its 24 models, pronounced tail fins, completely new body styling. Among the year's most unusual new models was Willys Motors' new four-cylinder Jeep Surrey, which has a brightly painted body, seats in candy-striped colors that match a vinyl-covered fringed top. The Surrey, priced at $1,650, is aimed chiefly at resort and vacation centers. Checker...
Wall Street's bull market has also brought other troubles-among them the revival of the oldtime boiler shop.* Most boiler shops are hit-and-run operations that fold up before the SEC can swing into action. But in the past year the commission, largely through its New York regional office under Paul Windels Jr., has cracked down hard. In fiscal 1959, the SEC's total number of injunctions against brokers and security dealers doubled over the previous year to in, and its number of criminal actions tripled to 45. "We'd do more," says SEC Chairman...
...Among Harvard theatrical groups, "the HDC alone may have the institutionalized character and broad range of interest to keep going," he said...