Word: questionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this week: radiation therapy, the only treatment advisable for the serious condition of free-floating cancer cells. From Dulles' sister, Eleanor Lansing Dulles, a State Department Germany expert, came the closest approach to the truth that is possible in such a situation: "It is grave. There is no question about it. But Foster has more than the normal power of selfdiscipline, and in his case it isn't wise to go on averages...
...leaders of the World Council of Churches met for one of the most exciting meetings in the council's ten-year history. Cause of the stir: Pope John's dramatic announcement of an ecumenical council in 1961 or 1962 (TIME, Feb. 9), which will examine the question of Christian unity and may well include Protestant observers. The problem before the council: On what terms can other Christians meet with Roman Catholicism in the face of its insistence that it is the only true Christian church...
...five days behind closed doors, the World Council's executive committee warmly debated "a reply to the Pope." It turned out to be a cautious document, expressing interest in the proposed meeting but stressing lack of information. "The question is how ecumenical will the council be in composition and in spirit?" The committee advanced its own version of ecumenical cooperation: "Progress toward unity is made when churches meet together on the basis of mutual respect and with a full commitment on the part of each church to the truth of the Gospel, to charity and to a faithful interpretation...
...session might be fleeting. But psychiatrists who have watched her strike some response in the minds of mental patients, are convinced of the value of her work. Dancing with her, patients sometimes cry out, "This is me!" Says St. Elizabeths' Superintendent Winfred Overholser: "There is no question but that Miss Chace's dance therapy is one means of bringing patients back to reality...
Singing contestants and sagging ratings killed the quizzes. Twenty One, The $64,000 Question, The $64,000 Challenge, and half a dozen other intellectual pretenders are buried. The fancy "Fantastics" that were supposed to herald a trend -Invisible Man and World of Giants-have yet to find sponsors. Patti Page and Buddy Bregman, with their variety shows, will be dropped in March; Man with a Camera, a freelance photographer's adventures, was a flop from the start, will also disappear next month. Behind Closed Doors, a cloak-and-daguerreotype, is almost sure to follow. Even laughter is losing...