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Some Catholic enthusiasts for renewal were disturbed by the large number of conservative curialists who were named princes of the church. As it happens, expert Vaticanologists interpreted their elevation as a slight step toward modernizing and liberalizing the Roman bureaucracy. By tradition, one cardinal does not serve under another; several of the new prelates are seconds-in-command to venerable conservatives who presumably will now be induced to retire. Both Angelo Dell'Acqua and Antonio Samoré, the two Vatican under secretaries of state, are considerably more open to church renewal than their superior, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, 84. France...
...small band of FDA investigators have had to devise their own techniques of investigation. Some of the brand marks impressed on tablets and printed on gelatin capsules are such expert forgeries that the agency's Bureau of Drug Abuse Control (TIME, May 5) has developed a science it calls "pillistics," an equivalent of ballistics that adapts microscopy and other laboratory tests to tracing counterfeit medicines to a particular machine...
Died. Vice Admiral Charles B. Momsen, 70, U.S. submarine expert and inventor of the Momsen lung for underwater escapes, who in 1928 devised the first successful escape device by rigging a mask to a rubberized bag of oxygen, testing it himself before it became standard equipment on all U.S. subs; of pneumonia; in St. Petersburg...
Speeding Aid. As for the claim that Vietnamese hospitals are crowded with burn victims in need of plastic surgery in the U.S., the committee tended to agree with Dr. Howard A. Rusk, the U.S.'s best-known rehabilitation expert, that such is not the case. Among the hundreds of casualties the doctors saw, only 38 were suffering from "war burns" (both phosphorus and napalm), and 13 of these were children. They found no patients with third-degree burns covering more than 20% of the body surface. This, they concluded, jibed with the opinion of U.S. military experts that...
...government (TIME, May 19), leronymos promises to bring a breath of needed fresh air to Greece's dormant, dominant church. A native of the marble-quarrying island of Tinos, leronymos was ordained a deacon in 1932, earned scholarships to theological schools in England and Germany. He is an expert in canon law, with 90 published works to his credit, has a doctorate in divinity from the University of Athens. After World War II, he came to Queen Frederika's attention by leading a movement to repatriate Greek children who had been kidnaped by Communist guerrillas...