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Much like the laurel wreath of ancient Greece, the honorary degree is to some extent a measure of the nation's esteem for human achievement. This year the man most voluminously laureled by the U.S. academic community was Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray (TIME cover, Dec. 12, 1960), chief architect of the Vatican Council's historic declaration on religious liberty. He received six honorary doctorates, from Yale, Columbia, Fordham, Gonzaga, Fairfield and Detroit universities...
...chef d'oeuvre was wood pigeon with olives. The pigeons were stuffed with beef, veal, sausage, pepper, nutmeg and truffles. After being sauteed, they were put in a casserole to simmer. An hour later, pitless, desalted green olives were added, along with cognac. So highly did Lautrec esteem the dish that his supreme put-down was to say: "They don't deserve my wood pigeon in olives...
...City's Muehlebach Hotel. "I'll never be too busy to pay my respects to a great American." The 33rd President, Harry Truman, need never have doubted that the phone call would come at his 82nd birthday party, for Lyndon Johnson holds no man living in greater esteem. "We've had 13 years to see the wisdom of your policies," said Johnson. Then he chuckled: "I have often thought you'd rather have your friends cussing you than praising you, but you'll have to go right on paying the price of greatness." Beamed Harry...
...profession's official and aggressive opposition to medicare marred the doctor's image among many Americans-and raised bothersome questions about how the profession will treat the huge influx of new patients, all of them old people who particularly need human comfort. While most patients profess esteem for their own doctors, people have become more critical of the profession as a whole. "The public now tends to view the physician as something less than an individual on a pedestal," says Walter McNerney, president of the Blue Cross Association. "The doctor finds himself the subject of judgment...
...beginning of "socialized law" in the U.S., that it will take business away from private attorneys in poor neighborhoods, and that it violates the bar's Code of Ethics by actively soliciting clients' business. Nonetheless, the American Bar Association, mindful that the medical profession won little esteem by its high-powered resistance to medicare, has endorsed the project and pledged full cooperation. "In helping to carry out a program dedicated to the principle of equal justice for all," says A.B.A. President-elect Orison S. Marden, "we have nothing to lose and much to gain...