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...will not be "blackmailed" by a succession crisis into staying on. As he noted on Sept. 16, "Where there is a will there is a way." Heeding his advice, the U.S. would do well to begin working actively to find an acceptable candidate while the situation is still fluid...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Replacing Thant | 10/5/1966 | See Source »

...particular acacia lost its anonymity in mid-July when a stream of tea-colored "water" began spewing from a knothole in a limb 25 ft. above the ground. Local Mexican-Americans soon saw religious significance in the "crying tree"; they began dropping by to touch it, rub its mysterious fluid on their bodies, and even to drink the stuff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Botany: The Crying Tree | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...effected by the acacia's water. A blind woman said her sight was restored after the acacia's liquid was poured into her eyes. Open sores on a child's face were reported washed away. Arthritic pain and lung congestion apparently disappeared after sufferers drank the fluid. Soon busloads of visitors were arriving at the Morse property from as far away as San Antonio and Monterrey, Mexico...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Botany: The Crying Tree | 9/16/1966 | See Source »

...Engineering worriedly argues that more and more "blame is being pinned on the design engineer." In theory, engineers have always been vulnerable to negligence claims; in fact, they have rarely been sued because the firms employing them make a more tempting financial target. Even so, the legal situation is fluid enough to give designers ample cause for worry about the future. Main reason: a spate of recent court decisions that have eroded the old doctrine of "privity" while enhancing the new doctrine of "strict liability...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Liability: The Decline & Fall of Privity | 8/26/1966 | See Source »

...they spent one hour and 50 minutes cutting away the diseased hemisphere-from the neocortex, the control center for man's most civilized mental processes, down to the ancient part of the brain, where reflexive and instinctual functions are mediated. The surgeons put nothing in the space; cerebrospinal fluid would soon fill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Neurosurgery: Life with Half a Brain | 8/5/1966 | See Source »

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