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...tests before it comes into widespread use. Says Mulliken: "We just don't know how strong the bone is going to be." Adds Oral Surgeon Leonard Kaban: "We are trying to go very slowly with this. We don't want it to be a case of the emperor's new clothes, where everybody wants it to work so much that they just believe it does...
...EMPEROR OF DUNE by Frank Herbert; Putnam; 411 pages...
...probably most impressive as a historical novelist. Not only does he do his homework, but he can make old facts look like contemporary gossip. And he takes wicked pleasure in turning accepted notions about the past upside down. Julian (1964) strikes a blow for paganism and the Roman Emperor who tried to halt the spread of Christianity. Both Burr (1973) and 1876 (1976) portray the U.S. founding fathers and their successors in distinctly unheroic postures. Creation opens on a similarly iconoclastic note. Vidal's target this time is the Athens of Pericles, the cradle of Western democracy...
...most controversial event of the three-day visit was a 45-minute meeting with Emperor Hirohito, 79. Rabid right-wingers, distressed that Hirohito, a former Shinto god, would deign to meet with a Vicar of Christ, rode about town waving a sign proclaiming POPE IS A BEAST. Some of Japan's 700,000 Protestants protested the meeting as well. The Pope's visit, they felt, would en courage a resurgent movement to elevate Shintoism to status as a national religion. About 70 others, including left-wingers, four Japanese Catholic clergy men and some Buddhist priests, accused John Paul...
...President's image has been tarnished not only by the whiff of scandal -to this day he has refused to respond to accusations that he received diamonds from former Central African Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa-but by the deterioration of the aura of technocratic competence that long marked his management of economic and foreign affairs. Unemployment has reached a new record of 1.6 million (6.9%), inflation is galloping along at an intractable 13.6%, and growth is virtually...