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...Squeezed to Death." Does this mean that the Malthusian limit will never be reached? Not so, says Physicist Heinz von Foerster, 48, of the University of Illinois, the latest to cry extinction of the human race. He does it, not as a mystic does, having undergone some shattering revelation, but with earnest and scholarly equations. His doomsday is the year 2026. In the November 4 Science, Professor von Foerster calculates by elaborate mathematics what will happen if the human species avoids large-scale disaster (e.g., nuclear war), sets up a cooperative world society, develops technical methods that yield an unlimited...
Philip was a mystic so prone to ecstasy that sometimes his Masses would last for hours while he remained in trance. Levitation seemed to come easily to him, according to chroniclers of his time, and was a source of much embarrassment. He forestalled it wherever possible by cracking outrageous jokes: he even seized a Swiss guard's beard to keep him from taking off. One witness stated in his deposition at Philip's canonization process that he had seen the saint with his feet off the ground on innumerable occasions...
Eucharistic Congresses, the spectaculars of Roman Catholicism, have been held since 1881 in every corner of the earth (the last in Rio in 1955) to worship what German Theologian Theoderich Kampmann called "the still white majesty of the mystic bread" and thus to demonstrate Catholic internationalism and solidarity. Last week nearly half a million Catholics from all over the world met in Munich to celebrate the 37th World Eucharistic Congress. Among them: Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who arrived by helicopter, plus 21 cardinals, 500 bishops and thousands of priests...
Trimountain, has once again been isolated by overhead highways bisecting Hanover Street and leading to the Mystic River Bridge. Now the Health Board has drawn a sinister blue line to separate it from the rest of Boston. Beyond the line, the North End contains an Italian village which is in many places very pretty. You can't drive there conveniently--the myriad one way streets are difficult to navigate--but it is the place to go to look for monuments...
...Leopoldville's new Palais de la Nation echoed to the jabber of a score of languages and dialects, for the Congo's first legislators represent a nation of more than 150 separate tribes, each with its own interests and jealous point of view, its own savage and mystic creed, its own desire for power...