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...submerged is the far more relevant question of how to cope with stoppages by public employees in institutions affecting the public welfare. To Dr. William McCord, president of Medical College Complex, which includes the hospital, the answer is simple: "It is our intention to resist this union in its attempt to get in here with every legal means at our disposal. Make no mistake about that." McCord, who was brought up in Africa, where his parents were medical missionaries, prefers to deal with employees on an individual basis...
...sprinkling of diverse industry: a tile factory, a plant making laboratory instruments, another producing furniture. Briare's real distinction, however, is invisible. In the past six national elections, the men and women of Briare have voted within a few percentage points of the entire French nation. To attempt to discover how Briare will vote in the April 27 referendum, TIME Correspondent John Blashill spent several days in the town and filed this report...
...model law's framers made no attempt to resolve what has been one of the most controversial points-the question of when a man is considered dead. Because doctors are only now starting to agree on a scientific definition of death, none is included in the act. Instead, the decision is left to the dying man's physician. To avoid a conflict of interest-and overly hasty removal of organs-the attending physician who declares a man dead may not be on the team that performs a transplant...
...allowed reporters to at tend its business sessions. The newsmen were treated to nothing more exciting than, for example, a brief statement of principles by the presiding officer, Cardinal-designate John Dearden of Detroit. Yet even that brief exposure to once se cret proceedings underscored the hierarchy's attempt to establish a more open and democratic style. Some of the bishops visited the Houston Space Center, and on the eve of the conference, a dozen of them made an even more extraordinary gesture toward modernity. Journeying across town to Hous ton's All Saints Church, they...
...critics go after cigarette advertising rather than attempt to outlaw the product itself? In practical terms, any sort of Volstead-style prohibition of cigarettes would be impossible to legislate, and any such legislation impossible to enforce. For all the difficult moral and legal questions involved, the anti-tobacco forces consider a drive on marketing to be the best way to confront the cigarette...