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...many Roman Catholics, I hope, who are appalled at the shallow thinking of our Chicago brethren who became a pressure group protesting the showing of the TV film Martin Luther [Dec. 31]. If, as Catholics, we possess the truth, why do they resort to such intolerance in order to prohibit what they consider to be false from the beginning. We cannot deny the historical existence of Luther and his founding of the Protestant Church. Do Chicago Catholics fear the facts of history? I wonder if they realize how much their bigotry damages the cause of Catholicism and the fellowship...
...radioactive iodine. Tobacco is no longer banned in all cases-"there is little point in forbidding a tense patient to smoke a little, if that serves to relax him." Also, "if one or two drinks a day serve to relax an otherwise apprehensive person, it would be unwise to prohibit them." But the patient must not drink heavily because that-it is now known-adds to the burden on the heart instead of decreasing it. Angina patients are now also allowed to fly, in preference to a longer, more fatiguing surface journey, thanks to the development of pressurized cabins...
Last week the Miami Beach city council was considering a proposal to hold the zoning line, prohibit hotel building north of the Eden Roc. Established hotelkeepers, fearful of competition, argued for the ban; merchants, fearful of atrophy, argued against. As the argument raged, Hotelman Sam Cohen (Casablanca, Sherry Frontenac) announced his own solution: to save time, he was tearing down the old Macfadden-Deauville, put up in 1925 at a cost of $500,000, replacing it with the new Deauville at a cost of $25 million...
Vellucci had proposed that cars be permitted to park overnight on alternating sides of Cambridge streets 40 feet or wider. The present regulations prohibit overnight parking on all city streets...
...municipal bus lines to write restrictive specifications to exclude bids from other manufacturers. As a result, said the complaint, more than 20 G.M. competitors have withdrawn from bus-building since 1925, and no new company has come into the field since 1946. The Government asked the court to "perpetually" prohibit G.M.'s monopolistic practices, and to enjoin G.M. from supplying more than 50% of the bus requirements of four principal bus operators (Greyhound Corp., National City Lines, New York City Omnibus Corp., Public Service Coordinated Transport...