Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ULYSSES. An honest, mildly sensational and for the most part intelligent precis o James Joyce's masterpiece-although th film suffers from Director Joseph Strick' decision simply to illustrate Joyce's words rather than transform them into images...
...Susie L. Wadley Research Institute in Dallas. When he turned 90, Wadley was confident that the Institute had now struck it rich in cancer research. At his party, he told how nine-year-old Frank Hayes Jr. had been in the last stages of acute leukemia when Dr. Joseph M. Hill began giving him injections of the bacterial extract, L-asparaginase. Within a month, the boy's grotesquely swollen glands had shrunk, and analysis of his blood cells showed no active cancer. Dr. Hill warned Wadley that this was technically a "remission," and no one could yet claim...
Died. Hermann Joseph Muller, 76, U.S. geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in 1946 for his 1927 experiments in which he bombarded fruit flies with X rays to produce weird mutations and demonstrated long before the atomic age the effects of radiation on genes, an outspoken scientist, most recently advocating the establishment of artificial insemination banks to store the frozen sperm of gifted men to improve the human race now and in the future; of heart disease; in Indianapolis...
Updating Doctrine. Outwardly secure and successful, the unique religion created by Joseph Smith and carried to Utah by Brigham Young is nonetheless at a testing time. Much as in the churches of mainstream Christianity, Mormonism is being prodded out of its old ways by a new generation of believers who temper loyalty to the faith with a conviction that its doctrines need updating. Worried about the relevance of Mormonism, some of them are all but openly critical of the policies fostered by the church's venerable, conservative hierarchy, headed by President David O. McKay, 93, and his Council...
...only by a direct revelation from God to the President, Prophet and Seer of the church. Although he insists that most Mormons are not prejudiced against Negroes, President McKay has declared that he sees no possibility of a new revelation on the teaching. McKay's probable successor, Joseph Fielding Smith, 90, president of the Council of the Twelve Apostles, has also said that he thinks a new revelation unlikely to occur soon. Unwilling to create a church schism over the issue, many Mormon liberals are confident that the continuing pressure of the civil rights revolution will sooner or later...