Word: presbyterian
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...state, rounds out his six-year term in September and still has not rejected the idea of another. Trim, silver-haired, he took his law degree at the French Jesuit St. Joseph's University in Beirut, married a wife who is half English, half Lebanese and a Presbyterian. Chamoun himself, as tradition dictates for a Lebanese president, is a Roman Catholic of the Maronite sect. Elected as an ardent nationalist on a reform ticket, he stuck to Lebanon's customary neutral foreign policy until the Suez crisis, then plumped for the West and followed through by becoming...
...Francisco last week Gustav J. Beck of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center manned a demonstration booth to show general practitioners how easily they can now do just this in their own offices-with gadgets that look like babies' croup kettles. They generate a "superheated Aerosol," a mist containing minute droplets of 15% salt solution and 20% propylene glycol (a wetting agent) at 125° F. The patient inhales this hot fog for half an hour. The salt solution draws out fluid from bronchial cells and from the myriad tiny air-exchange cells (alveoli) in his lungs...
Healing the sick was one of the spectacular achievements of Christ's missionary disciples, but today, ailing Christians are far more inclined to turn for relief to an M.D. than a D.D. More and more clergymen, including the new United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (TIME, June 16), are taking seriously the idea that prayer has something to offer the body as well as the soul. In October 1953, the Church of England appointed a 28-man commission of ministers and medical men "to consider the theological, medical, psychological and pastoral aspects of 'Divine Healing.' " Last week...
Died. Sam Higginbottom, 83, onetime (1939-40) Moderator of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., longtime missionary to India, former president of Allahabad Christian College; after a heart attack; in Port Washington, N.Y. British-born, U.S.-educated Sam Higginbottom, distressed by man's fate in the India he first visited in 1903 ("In those villages it took no effort to die"), studied agriculture at Ohio State University, returned to introduce crop rotation, irrigation and contour farming...
Winding up their eight-day meeting in Pittsburgh last week, the 1,200 delegates to the first General Assembly of the brand-new United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (TIME, June 9) heard these notable recommendations: <| From 2,000 to 2,500 additional ministers should be recruited by 1970, seminary capacity must be doubled, and $25 million must be spent on new churches and seminaries within the next ten years. EUR| More proselyting energy should be expended on Jews. "We would remind our people," said a commission report, "since most Jews are such in name only, that in a spirit...