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...forum was planned by the Congregational-Presbyterian Student Fellowship and was moderated by Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature...
...people who live in temperate countries, vampire bats are colorful items for horror stories. In Latin America they are a too real horror. They carry rabies and transmit it to humans and animals, whose blood they drink. Rabies does not necessarily kill the vampires, and anti-bat measures by humans do not kill enough of them. Last week a Brazilian naturalist, Dr. Augusto Ruschi, 41, was working out a new solution of the vampire problem: biological warfare with a disease that kills bats only...
...vampire menace of Latin America has been building up for several decades. Even before they carried rabies, the blood-drinking bats were not pleasant neighbors. When attacking sleeping humans, they generally go for the toes, sometimes creeping under the bedclothes like evil, winged mice. Sleeping animals are their staple diet. They generally bite on the wing, retreating and hovering in the air a few feet away to see if their victim has awakened. Dogs often wake up when bitten, but other animals generally do not. Several bats may flutter down to drink one trickle of blood...
Nepotism is not a new word at the Vatican; evolved from the Latin nepos for nephew, it originally described the fat handouts of princedoms and privileges to the nephews of Popes centuries ago. Last week the word went back to its old meaning and added new fuel to the hot church v. state issue in the campaigning for next month's general elections in Italy...
Jerome S. Bruner, professor of Psychology, Paul J. Tillich, University Professor, and Donald C. Williams, professor of Philosophy, will discuss "Religion in the University." The forum, sponsored by the Congregation-Presbyterian Student Fellowship, will be moderated by Mason Hammond '25, Pope Professor of the Latin Language and Literature...