Word: heard
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Lawyers who carefully jockey postponements in the hope that their cases can be heard by a presumably sympathetic judge may be dismayed at appearing before an unknown from Iowa. But, as one New York attorney observed, "we can always check a judge out by calling a colleague who practices in his area." And almost all of the lawyers concede that the potential gain in the court's calendar far outweighs any individual inconveniences. Whether regular reshuffling of judges can provide a long-range solution is not so widely agreed on, however...
Bradesku testified that his wife's affection for him began to wane two years ago. That was when she started listening to broadcasts of the Radio Church of God, a fundamentalist sect that claims 40,000 members and prepares a weeknightly program that is heard on 210 U.S. radio stations. The message got through to Mrs. Bradesku, and she became something of a student of the church's beliefs, according to her oldest son, who testified for his father. What particularly bothered her was a growing feeling that, since her husband had been divorced once, her marriage...
...their own surprise, they find that they are achieving survivals of at least five and ten years for a heartening number of patients. In cancer cases, such remissions are considered tantamount to cure. Last week at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan an internation al gathering of radiologists heard that this improvement is now being accomplished for many victims of Hodgkin's disease and related cancers. The higher cure rate, they heard, can be extended not only to greater numbers of Hodgkin's patients, but to others suffering from a variety of cancers...
...Southern states every summer for the past three years, visiting revival meetings and churches. Though "rural camp-meetings have been replaced by brick-walled auditoriums and revival tents by rainproof sheds," he writes, the raucous rhythms of lined-out hymns and "the resounding babble of glossalalia" can still be heard-evidence that neither drive-in movies nor television has "diminished the appeal that uninhibited religious exhibitions have as popular entertainment." One Cumberland mountaineer told Caldwell: "I always go to church on Sundays to get my soul saved like the preacher says. He can shout good and loud...
Congress also heard from a blue-ribbon Treasury advisory panel headed by former Secretary Douglas Dillon and including Bankers David Rockefeller and Robert Roosa and Economists Walter Heller and Kermit Gordon. "In the interests of our nation's economic strength and stability," they warned, "enactment of the surcharge must be delayed no longer...