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...Came Naturally. John LaFarge was born into both the Social Register and the Catholic Church. His father John was a famous American artist.* His mother was a granddaughter of Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, and a direct descendant of Benjamin Franklin. He grew up in a cultivated literary and artistic world not remarkable for its piety. Both his parents, however, were attentive Catholics, and from boyhood, as John LaFarge remembers, "the idea of being a priest came to me naturally." He did not let his secular education (Harvard '01) nor his promise as a concert pianist interfere...
Despite the possibilities of an earthquake, Professor Let does not think students should grow panicky. "We can't say whether the quake will come tomorrow or a thousand years from now. The actual present hazard," he says," is less than crossing Harvard Square at noon...
...Father Cummings lay dying, the U.S. Bureau of Mines, by a coincidence, issued a set of recommendations to reduce the hazard. Wool blankets, plastic sheets and most synthetic fabrics should not be allowed near an anesthesia machine, the bureau said, because of the danger that they will generate static electricity and cause a spark. Cotton should be used instead. Doctors and nurses must not wear wool trousers, nylon gowns, or rubber-soled shoes. Tables, machines and stools should have non-insulating feet, to conduct static electricity to the floor...
...ball comes to rest within dangerous proximity to a crocodile," runs one of the ground rules at a golf club in Uganda, "another ball may be dropped." Crocodiles have always been a hazard in equator-straddling Uganda, but until recently the creatures have stayed pretty close to the territory's lakes, swamps and rivers. Last week they were crawling all over the place. "Look out," a newly posted notice warned motorists on a roadside in Mubende. "Crocodiles are lying in wait...
Washington Correspondent Frances Levison, while covering the Kefauver hearings, discovered a new hazard to her profession when she was called by her bureau's deskman, who asked: "Where were you? We were watching TV and you weren't at the press table...