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...bluntly told Goya that the portrait would never do and would have to be changed. In a rage, Goya started to pick up a pistol lying on a table near by, and Wellington went for his sword. "Fortunately the two great men were separated before they could do greater harm than to express their opinions of each other," wrote Mrs. Havemeyer. "Goya would never change the portrait nor allow Wellington any longer to pose for him." The artist had finished Wellington's face, and he painted the rest of the picture from a hired model...
...with bleeding and purging. It has long since been proved that there is no scientific justification for the "vogue of rest." but too many of his colleagues, says Dr. Mead, go on prescribing it, not only in cases where it does no good, but often when it does actual harm...
Oldtime physicians who bled their patients for whatever ailed them, from "the vapors" to the gout, did more harm than good. But modern medicine has not forgotten the ancient practice. A pair of New Orleans researchers reported to the American Heart Association last week that repeated small bleedings have proved effective in relieving the agonizing tightness of angina pectoris and other symptoms of coronary disease-ironically, an uncommon problem in the days of leeching and venepuncture...
Bunche declared that he believes "the greatest threats to American domocracy are internal rather than external. Communism is still here," he said, but the Barnetts and the Welches do us more harm than Khrushchev can ever do." It is a curious thing, he noted, that these who are most worried about Communism are also the most vociferous in attacking the United Nations...
Opposed to them will be the church's "liberals"-bishops who believe that the church should discard nonessentials that harm its mission, seek to make it, without sacrificing doctrine, more accessible as a home for modern man. Apart from unity-minded Cardinal Bea, the liberals have few friends in the Vatican Curia, but they do include such articulate prelates as Tanganyika's Laurean Cardinal Rugambwa, Utrecht's Bernard Jan Cardinal Alfrink, Montreal's Cardinal Léger, Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner, a clear majority of the bishops in France, The Netherlands, Germany...