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Dean Miller also put faith in the "perversity of man." He said that if the world became too perfect by means of its technology, people would simply revoit, refuse to avail themselves of the enslaving apparatus. "You see people doing that already," he said...
...Congregationalists and Presbyterians the "ultimate goal is that people in the college should be able to discover the richness of their faith without being overly organized in religious institutions." Students, says Rev. Mumma, should avail themselves of the community and abolish the dichotomy between the religious and academic life. In the university, a student is often confronted with abstractions and with a number of alternatives; Rev. Mumma feels that the importance of religion is to help people make value judgments...
...Avail." But the President never regained consciousness. In Emergency Room No. 1, Dr. Kemp Clark, 38, chief of Parkland's neurosurgical department, examined a large wound in the President's head and another smaller wound-from the second of the three shots-in his throat. Clark and eight other doctors worked over him for 40 minutes, but the President was already as dead as though he had fallen on a battlefield in mortal combat. The doctors gave him oxygen, anesthesia, performed a tracheotomy to help breathing; they fed him fluids, gave him blood transfusions, attached an electrocardiograph...
...when he was brought in. There was no spontaneous respiration. He had dilated, fixed pupils. Technically, by using vigorous resuscitation, intravenous tubes and all the usual supportive measures, we were able to raise a semblance of a heartbeat." There were some "palpable pulses," said one doctor, but "to no avail...
...allowed opponents a meager 195 yds. per game, only 52 points all season. Enemy quarterbacks fill the air with footballs (an average of 35 to 40 passes a game) until, as Royal says, "they have us blinking like a horned frog in a hailstorm." But all to no avail. Even in practice, the fanatical Longhorns play for keeps. Last spring, Tackle Scott Appleton, a 235-lb. All-America candidate, halted an intrasquad scrimmage to protest a referee's call. The startled ref admitted that he was wrong. But what difference did it make? "Sir," growled Appleton...