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...expounding the theory of Marxism, Presbyterian Miller is at his lucid best. Readers who have long shuddered at the jabberwocky of "dialectical materialism" will find this book's opening chapters a clear, practically painless exposition of Marxism's fundamentals. But Author Miller's efforts to find common denominators between the Communist Manifesto and the New Testament are less successful. Christians, says he, would be better Christians for studying Marx because Christians must act in the world...
...Newcastle. Americans had smugly recognized that Britain's decline must be accompanied by U.S. political expansion into some areas; but this expansion had been visualized in the painless future. The coal crisis in Britain brought U.S. responsibility much nearer for a host of immediate world problems. President Truman offered to send Britain coal; Attlee declined coals for Newcastle, giving a reason that reminded Americans of what it means to have worldwide responsibility. Attlee said continental Europe needed the U.S. coal more than Britain...
...race for independence, the tricky, smiling Burmans last week forged ahead of their solemn Indian neighbors. A Burman delegation prepared to leave London after quickly getting almost everything-short of outright independence-that it had come for. The process had been relatively quiet and painless, although at times it was a bit embarrassing to all concerned, like Sir Hubert Elvin Ranee's reception...
Amazingly painless" and "I had too much anyway" were comments of blood-givers after their donations yesterday. "Greatest shock of my life," cooed a prissy 'Cliffedweller, "it wasn't blue...
Modern science has developed dozens of new pain killers (novocaine, spinal blocks, cyclopropane, sodium pentothal, etc.), but ether is still safest and best. Enthusiastic centennial speakers noted that anesthesia has brought many boons to man besides easier human surgery: e.g., it made possible a vast amount of painless experimentation on animals. Now, said Dr. Beecher, a "second power" of anesthesia is emerging-the power of probing the human mind. "With anesthetic agents we seem to have a tool for producing and holding at will different levels of consciousness-a tool that promises to be of great help in studies...