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Thursday evening Lyndon staged a "Salute to Congress," his appreciation of the most productive session in its history. As it turned out, the House was too busy producing to adjourn in time, so that the curtain was 1½ hours late, and the State Department auditorium only one-fourth filled-most audibly with fuming congressional wives...
...Swedish doctor was struck by the fact that many diving accidents, some fatal and others nearfatal, could not be explained by the more dramatic dangers to which medical investigators pay most attention. He queried hundreds of Swedish sport divers and found, that no less than one-fourth of them had had occasional episodes of vertigo, and a few had it practically every time they dived. Dizziness struck at any depth from six to 100 feet...
...optimistically claims that "anywhere from one-third to one-half of the United Presbyterian members" will defect from the church if the Confession is approved. That hardly seems likely, but there is some evidence for the charge by Executive Editor Nelson Bell of the conservative Protestant biweekly Christianity Today that "dissent will reach into almost every presbytery." Already, members of churches in Pittsburgh, Peoria and San Jose, Calif., have gone on record as opposing the Confession in its present form. In Seattle, the Rev. David Brittain of Foster-Tukwila Presbyterian Church fears that one-fourth of the city...
...Hindu, unprotected by social security, old-age pensions, unemployment or sickness benefits, considers sons to be his best insurance against impoverished old age. Beyond this, a gain in the economy can be a mixed blessing. Of the 40% of the world's population that normally goes hungry, about one-fourth are Indians. Even a slight increase in their standard of living means that they would eat better food and grow healthier-and that would send their birth rate...
They face the immediate prospect of finding new homes in a city where the vacancy rate is substantially below what housing experts consider necessary for adequate mobility and where there is an insufficient supply (less than 2,000 units yearly) of publicly supported, low cost housing. Additionally, more than one-fourth of the poor cannot even afford the rents in low cost projects...