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...Lewis' remarks in "Faith & Outer Space" prompt me to wonder if the serpent in the Old Testament might not have been a visitor from outer space...
...March 24, I recommended to the Congress enactment of legislation to provide the temporary continuation of unemployment compensation benefits for workers who had exhausted their benefits under state and federal laws," said the President. "I said at the time that prompt action was necessary to give these workers and their families 'a greater measure of security.' This is not a matter of statistics or economic theory. It concerns people-human beings-who need, and should have, the assistance of their government...
...powers are not ashamed of being poor, of being too poor to shoulder the white man's burden or to compete with first-class powers in providing aid for uncommitted countries." Best of all, when a second-class nation needs help, it can declare itself uncommitted: "Response is prompt. The West suggest a loan of countless dollars repayable over two thousand years: the East offer the free labor of twenty million skilled Siberians. Second-class powers can hardly wait for China to become fully first-class. Three sources of foreign aid are better than...
Despite the grim sights, the exhibit offered much hope. At each of the 26 booths, a victim of cancer who has undergone successful surgery was in attendance, living testimony to the efficacy of early detection and prompt treatment. Other townspeople allowed use of before-and-after pictures, some showing faces horribly deformed by cancer, then repaired by skillful surgery. One of the most eloquent volunteer exhibits was a man who had had his vocal cords removed for cancer of the larynx: Deputy Sheriff Sproul Dean, who has learned to speak through his gullet with swallowed air. Said he: "I recovered...
...your March 3 prompt reporting of the [House Government Operations Committee] hearing, there is an error in your reference to our Parliament and Marlboro brands. I refer you to the report of the hearings where you will note that both the new high nitration Parliament and Marlboro are among the top three popular-price brands in low tar and nicotine delivery according to the Government's accepted figures. These brands were re-engineered late in 1957 and by February of this year were further reduced in tar and nicotine delivery...