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Feeney was excommunicated from the Church in February, 1953, for teaching that only Catholics could attain salvation. His group, the "Slaves of the Immaculate Heart of Mary," adhere to that doctrine and refuse to believe that he has been excommunicated...
Even if tuition rates should increase at the same rate as per capita income higher incomes would encourage more people to attain college educations. But tuitions have not increased at equal rates in the past, and if this policy is not changed in the future, then the flood of applicants will increase at an even greater rate, Harris pointed...
...forth. The University of Minnesota's team of heart repairmen, headed by Dr. Clarence Walton Lillehei, needed a "dry field" (the heart drained of blood) if they were to operate successfully. A Toronto-born colleague, Dr. Gilbert Campbell, 31, offered them the dog's lung to attain this. (He had already used lungs in 100 experimental operations with animals...
...underwear in the winter, and uses a lotion to retard the thinning of his hair, Press Secretary Colville put his foot down. To the British Press Council went a stern note: "You will, I am sure, readily agree that the Queen is entitled to expect that her family will attain the privacy at home which all other families are entitled to enjoy." Royal employees are now required to sign a pledge not to publish or "give any information . . . which might be communicated to the Press...
...wisdom, patient and untiring in the search for truth, and keenly conscious of the evils arising in a workaday world from any unnecessary delay-judges with all these attributes are not easy to find, but which of these traits dare we eliminate if we are to hope to attain evenhanded justice...