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...decisive questions affecting life and death, good and evil, including those matters where human sexuality is involved, He should not be a doctrinaire defender of ancient bastions, but rather-with all due respect for continuity in the church's life and teaching-he should be a pastoral pioneer of a renewed preaching and practice in the church...
...July 24, 1847 when Pioneer Brigham Young gazed down at the desolate Salt Lake Valley and declared: "This is the place." His Latter-day Saints, hounded out of three states, had found their homestead. Last week in Salt Lake City, 200,000 people celebrated the Pioneer Day legend with a mammoth parade. At the head of the procession was Brigham Young's latest successor, Spencer Woolley Kimball, 83, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Behind him were brass bands, floats, fiddlers, and such lesser dignitaries as Scott M. Matheson, the Governor of Utah...
DIED. Benson Ford, 59, reclusive vice president of the Ford Motor Co. and chairman of its dealer policy board; of a heart attack; on his yacht, which was docked near Cheyboygan, Mich. Second oldest grandson of Automotive Pioneer Henry Ford, Benson dropped out of Princeton after two years to work in the family company, and eventually headed the Lincoln-Mercury division. But he was happiest behind the wheel of a succession of motor yachts, all named Onika, and partly because of ill health, never played a major role in Ford management...
Perhaps so, but the skills and know-how of the Steptoe-Edwards team are almost universally acclaimed, even if its inclination toward secrecy is not. Silver-haired and elegant, Steptoe is a pioneer in the use of laparoscopy, a technique for exploring the abdomen and observing the reproductive tract by means of a long, thin telescope equipped with a fiber optics light. He is also an impeccable dresser, enjoys watching cricket and is a fine organist. In the words of a colleague, he is "a man of character and determination who if someone is speaking nonsense is perfectly willing...
Many scientists shared that surprise. For years they have talked about fertilizing the human egg in a test tube. But with every claim of success has come the inevitable countercurrent of doubt. Indeed as early as the 1940s, the eminent Boston gynecologist Dr. John Rock, a pioneer in development of the birth control pill, reported that he and colleagues had managed to fertilize an egg in vitro. But other scientists believe that the few cell divisions observed by Rock were nothing more than "parthenogenic cleavage" (division of the egg without the involvement of a sperm), probably induced by incidental stimulation...