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...hill in Imperial Beach, Calif. A drab shell, perhaps, but a pearl inside; as one 22-year-old girl put it, "the heaviest place I know to worship." Services include free-form "singing in the spirit," a mighty babble of moans, groans and cries against a background of organ music; "prophecies," in ersatz King James style; and long Cronquist sermons, complete with angels and demons...
...best-documented medical aftereffects of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was the leukemia that developed in many of the survivors. Those who received the heaviest doses of atomic radiation have been eight times more likely than other Japanese to get the disease. Now a new chapter of research by the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission* reveals what has long been suspected: that those who lived through the A-bombings are more susceptible than others to a whole variety of cancers...
...report examines the extent of regulations in the form of antitrust actions over the past 20 years, under Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon. Those Government officials who come under the heaviest attack for their antitrust laxity are Nicholas deB. Katzenbach, A???orney General under Johnson, and his assistant in charge of the Antitrust Division, Donald F. Turner...
...sheikdom of Abu Dhabi is not one of our heaviest circulation areas, but TIME has had an impact on the Persian Gulf state of 50,000. An article we ran four years ago described efforts by University of Arizona scientists to grow vegetables in the desert. The story so intrigued Sheik Zaid bin Sultan al Nahayan, that he gave the university's Environmental Research Laboratory more than $3,000,000 to build an experimental "controlled environment greenhouse" on the tiny island of Saadiyat off the Abu Dhabi coast...
Whatever the speed, wheels are clearly leading the way. Compared with last year, General Motors' post-tax earnings in 1971's first quarter jumped 75%, to $610 million, capping the heaviest quarterly sales in its history. That was largely the result of a buying splurge following the lengthy auto workers' strike, but G.M. reports that pent-up demand has now been wholly satisfied. Profits also climbed sharply at Ford (up 37%, to $169 million) and at Chrysler, which reported first-quarter earnings of $10.8 million v. a loss of $27.4 million in the equivalent period last year...