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...well as localized inflammations, e.g., syphilis and TB, play a minor role, Blumenthal evolved his thesis through an intensive study of hemodynamics-the mechanics of blood flow and pressure within arterial walls. Cholesterol is carried evenly through the body with the blood. But neither stress on arterial walls nor hardening of the arteries is uniform; both tend to coincide at artery junctions, just as water forced through a pipe exerts greatest pressure at the joints. To stay healthy the arterial wall must remain elastic, expanding and contracting with blood pressure. Normal high blood pressure exerts "wear and tear...
...with more than a lifetime's travel and experience, which can harden the warmest humanist, Siegfried still maintains an optimistic outlook. Opposed to Toynbee, he does not believe in the inevitable clash of the Western and Communist camps. "Technology," asserts Siegfried, "will be the binding force of the future." Democracy and Communism are certainly at appearance incompatible; but technology, claims the professor, is universal, and the leaders of the world must learn to stand together, or they will fall together on this common ground...
When the Hands Harden. Odette is a member of the Institut Seculaire de Tra-vailleuses Missionnaires de Marie Immaculee, and there are 24 young women like her. After five years in apprenticeship and study, they don white robes and gold rings as "Brides of Jesus." They do not take vows but merely pledge themselves to poverty, chastity and obedience (vows are not possible until the Roman Catholic church recognizes the Institut as a religious order). Then they exchange their robes for ordinary clothes, and for the rest of their working lives, they live and labor among the poor...
...already getting to be known as a missionary worker. "Last week a fellow worker noticed my ring and asked about my family. I invited her to our garret, and when she arrived, I told her the whole story. We're close friends already. By the time my hands harden up the whole plant will know. Already other girls are beginning to come around and wish me luck...
...hesitates to side with South Africa even when it is technically right. Officially, the U.S. takes the stand that the Arab-Asian motion is not "the best way to achieve constructive results," on the ground that U.N. discussion of South Africa's restrictive policies would only harden white South Africa's support of apartheid...