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...Wayward Saint (by Paul Vincent Carroll) is a St. Francis-like Irish canon, who-to his own and his bishop's distress -gets a name for sainthood thrust upon him. His noticeable talents for talking to birds, healing children and making plums grow on cherry trees have forced the bishop to banish him to a remote country parish. There, in the form of a worldly baron, appears an emissary of the Devil, panting after such a trophy as the soul of a saint. Under the baron's prodding, the canon begins to think he really is a saint...
...dogs are tenderly bathed once a day in little bathtubs. Then they are dried in an automatic drier that looks like a washing machine. Their blood counts are taken daily, and any signs of distress are noted. If they get radiation sickness, however, no attempt is made to cure them...
...government got a going-over last week from widely divergent angles. In a new Government document, Organization and Administration of the Military Research and Development Programs, the scientists told some of their own troubles. In an impressive editorial, the Protestant Christian Century pointed out the cause of their distress...
...physical wellbeing, such as growth. So far, Dubos can only hint at what these mechanisms may be. One clue lies in acute starvation, as distinguished from long-range underfeeding. If Dubos takes well-fed mice, but omits their feedings for 30 hours (not long enough to cause obvious physical distress), they become suddenly susceptible to artificial infections, which prove rapidly fatal. Some chemicals also have this effect-notably sodium citrate. (By contrast chronically undernourished mice can maintain a normal level of resistance...
...Wilson): This defense business of the country is too serious a business to look at as though it was made work ... I would like to tell you a story that happened to me . . . down in Washington. A group of people came in like you, from a distress area, so-called labor-surplus area . . . One of them made a complaint-that was a little over a year ago-and he said, "You have just reduced the draft in our district. There are no more young men that won't have to go to Korea and fight and that will...