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This week, a fortnight after doing a considerable survey of the quality of new-style Protestant sermons, we bring a four-color look at the Roman Catholics "general staff," the College of Cardinals. And though our springboard is the formal installation last week of ten new cardinals, we have been preparing for the event for two years, ever since Pope John XXIII named the first Negro and Japanese cardinals in history. Photographer David Lees in Rome was asked to shoot as many cardinals on the wing as he could, and whenever he could. His first opportunity came at a Eucharistic...
...Absolute Minimum." When the U.N. got disarmament and test-ban talks going again fortnight ago, the West began tossing out more hints of compromise; Britain's Foreign Secretary Lord Home promised the "absolute minimum" of verification (the term now used for detection and inspection). On the larger question of what the experts call"G. & C" (general and complete disarmament), the U.S.'s Dean Rusk suggested an intriguing scheme designed to soften Russian fear of inspection "espionage." It was similar to the plan of random geo graphical samplings proposed by Harvard University's International Law Professor Louis...
Rites of Spring. Flower shows are an annual rite of spring* all over the U.S. Manhattan's closed a fortnight ago after setting an alltime attendance record of 250,000 visitors in nine days. The trend at the Coliseum was toward bigger blossoms and smaller plants (one new product called Phosphon promised to produce "compact plants with full-sized blooms and shorter, stronger stems that do not fall over). The leaning to gigantism was reflected in row upon row of colossal amaryllis plants and roses the size of softballs. The New York Botanical Garden copped the "best in show...
...Love's face is beet-red and scarred with acne, and she has to shave daily. She has muscles like a male athlete's. Doctors warn that because Mrs. Love has a tendency to bleed heavily, she cannot risk a cut or undergo ordinary surgery. A fortnight ago. a jury awarded her $334,046 in damages from Dr. Wolf and Parke. Davis & Co., the drug's manufacturers. Her case, the first of its type to go to a jury, dramatized what are laconically called the "side effects" of many valuable drugs, and the problems of balancing...
Fort Knox last week bore an uncomfortable resemblance to a besieged stockade on the plains of the Old West. The fort was under attack not by redskins but by sharp-eyed and pin-striped foreign bankers. In the past fortnight, U.S. gold reserves have fallen by $80 million, now stand at a 23-year low of $16.7 billion. This is $2 billion less than total short-term foreign claims against the dollar. While U.S. officials rightly insist that foreigners will scarcely call all their claims at once, the fact that U.S. gold reserves could theoretically be wiped out on call...