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Religion may be booming in the U.S., and Episcopalians may be as prosperous as any other Christian denomination, but last week the publishers of Episcopal Churchnews, a fortnightly for laymen, announced that the five-year-old magazine would cease publication with its Aug. 18 issue. Successor to the venerable weekly Southern Churchman, founded in 1835, Churchnews strove for a snappy, newsy approach ("Old North Church Will Wheeze No More," "Vicar's Worry: They Love 'Lucy' More Than Evensong"). But the magazine never really managed to make church trade news sound lively, and beefing up the contents with...
Another "observation" of Martian life needed no telescope. Dr. Hubertus Strughold, chief of the Air Force's Department of Space Medicine, wrote a book a few years ago about Mars as an environment for living organisms (The Green and Red Planet, TIME, Aug. 24, 1953). His general conclusion was that the Martian climate is not too tough for some sort of hardy life. He suggested that this be proved by setting up a "Mars chamber," where rugged terrestrial organisms could be subjected to Martian conditions...
Cameras began rolling stealthily this week on the most elaborately furtive TV production of the season: the first commercial for the Ford Motor Co.'s new medium-priced car, the Edsel. To keep the car's looks hush-hush until the big unveiling Aug. 27, the ad agency hired Hollywood's Cascade Pictures, which makes special movies for the Atomic Energy Commission and the guided-missile program. Said a studio spokesman: "We're using all the same precautions that we take for AEC films." Five shrouded Edsels were whisked across the country by van from Mahwah...
FIRST INVESTMENT will be made by International Finance Corp. from its $92 million bankroll supplied by 49 member nations to step up industry in underdeveloped areas (TIME, Aug. 6). Agency will buy $2,000,000 worth of 6% notes from Brazilian subsidiary of West Germany's giant Siemens, electrical manufacturers. Money will help Siemens build electrical-equipment factory near São Paulo...
...phenomenal economic boom, is generally regarded as the Cabinet's most brilliant member, but is not widely known. Ernesto Uruchurtu, 50, a former Interior Minister and now governor of the Federal District, has made fans through his drastic face lifting of the nation's capital (TIME, Aug. 27). None of the six is doing any public campaigning-contemptuously called futurismo in Mexico-but behind closed doors all are hard at work. In bars, coffee shops and government offices last week, Mexicans were giving long odds that one of the six will, before long, wear the presidential sash...