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...expected to urge the church to support moderate economic and political reforms, in the spirit of his social encyclical Populorum Progressio. The unanswered question is whether that sound and humane advice will be too late in coming. Latin America's reactionary clerics, who enthusiastically endorsed his decree on birth control, are not likely to change their ways overnight. Nor are the rebel Catholics, who are already committed to support of violence as man's only hope. To some observers, Latin American Catholicism is heading toward something very like a schism-based not on dogma or theology...
High Salvation. Though Hubbard claimed near-miraculous results in ridding man of his neuroses, professional psychologists condemned Dianetics as amateurish and potentially dangerous meddling with serious mental problems. Undismayed, Hubbard in 1952 announced the birth of the Church of Scientology, an "applied religious philosophy" which retained most of the basic features of Dianetics. Incorporation as a church offered several built-in advantages-notably tax exemption...
This summer, marking the centenary of Vuillard's birth, Paris' Musée de L'Orangerie has mounted a retrospective of his works (see color opposite), which are displayed along with those of his brother-in-law and lifelong friend, Ker-Xavier Roussel. Both were contributors to the mighty explosion that was impressionism, but their visual worlds were quite different. Vuillard was essentially a realist, a chronicler of bourgeois life. Roussel, with his nymphs and gods, was a dreamer, trying to transplant classical Greece into the French landscape...
Sicker at Birth. The campaign to improve the lot of black doctors is not simply a matter of matching numbers, status symbols, ego satisfaction, or even the doctor's self-image, which is a vital factor in his ability to practice confidently and well. Health and medical care are as essential to the Negro's joining the mainstream of American life as are education and job opportunities. Indeed health may be more fundamental, and Negroes are sicker than whites from womb to tomb-their infant-mortality rate is double that of whites. A child can learn little, even...
Died. Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky, 71, Soviet military hero, victor in the incredibly tenacious defenses of Moscow and Stalingrad during World War II; of cancer; in Moscow. A Pole by birth, a Communist and Russian by inclination, Rokossovsky commanded 1,000,000 men at one point, and though his losses were staggering, inflicted such casualties on the Wehrmacht that the entire course of the war was changed. Somewhat less glorious was his conduct in August 1944, when, under Stalin's orders, he refused aid to the embattled Poles during the Warsaw uprising, stood blandly by while the Germans destroyed much...