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...still hearing from all over about TIME'S chillingly comprehensive coverage of the Cuban disaster-the Miró Cardona cover story (April 28) and related stories in The Nation. Aside from the letters we've received, the stories have obviously been the impetus for questions in Congress and the source of many subsequent accounts by reporters and newscasters (who last week reported the capture by Castro's forces of General Manuel Artime, the controversial young exile whom TIME introduced as the active leader of the invasion). CBS Correspondent Charles Collingwood, on his viewing the press TV show...
...decades scholars have been skeptical. Philomena's official demotion finally came as part of a long-term program, given extra impetus by Pope John XXIII, to tidy up the liturgical calendar by eliminating those saints about whom so little is known that their existence may be doubted. The Congregation of Rites indicated last week that there were more demotions to come...
Corn in Percival. The major work picked up impetus after World War II, as the Corps of Engineers divided their labors among several control systems. Dams, reservoirs, floodgates, riprap and levees were built to control the flow rate. Reforestation and soil-conservation practices decreased flood runoff. By enlarging and lining channels, removing snags and other obstructions, and by straightening bends, the engineers reduced flow resistance. Combined with local expenditures, these federal programs will eventually provide for 87 million acre-feet of flood-control storage in 219 reservoirs in the U.S., more than 9,000 miles of levees and floodwalls...
When the Vostok circled the earth, it got its impetus not from Russian science alone. Built into its structure were Brit ish, German, American, French, even Chinese and ancient Egyptian ideas. Russian scientists have often said as much, and they did so again last week. Said an official Soviet Government and Communist Party announcement: "We regard these victories in the conquest of outer space not only as the achievement of our people but as an achievement of all mankind." However chagrined U.S. scientists felt last week, they also partook of the Russian triumph...
Nevertheless, Miss Gordimer finds the basic impetus for her writing in her experiences "on the fringe of the white and black worlds--the uneasy ground where people are inclined to go past each other instead of making human contacts." She believes such contacts are vitally important. "Things can be done on the individual level to solve South Africa's problems. That's why I stay there. Even small human contacts across the color line matter very much...