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Charmed Circle. Founded 523 years ago this week by the worldly divine, Henry Chichele, Archbishop of Canterbury, All Souls was set up for "poor and indigent clerks" to pray in perpetuity for the souls of noblemen "drenched with the bowl of bitter death" during England's ruinous wars against France. Not much perpetual praying is done any more; rather the college is in purpose much like the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which in fact was modeled on All Souls. The school was not always respected; the 18th century All Souls degenerated into "a charmed circle of county...
...Courageous Leadership" Sir: You have done a useful service for civil aviation in this country by calling attention to the statesmanship of CAB Chairman Whitney Gillilland in specifying to the Defense Department that Military Air Transport traffic move over the certificated airlines at tariff rates, eliminating the ruinous practice of cutthroat bidding [July 18]. Only with this type of courageous leadership can the CAB fulfill its responsibility for developing an economically sound airlines system with the health and vigor to serve the country's civil and military needs...
...visit in ten days Ike chose the traditional ABC countries, Argentina, Brazil and Chile, plus neighboring Uruguay; among them, the four nations account for 50% of Latin America's people. Brazil, under destiny-conscious President Juscelino Kubitschek, is surging with a great industrial spree, marred by a possibly ruinous inflation. In Argentina, President Arturo Frondizi, sacrificing popularity and his oldtime leftist principles, is taking Argentina along the harsh, bitter road of hard work and self-denial, back from the handout, statist economics of Dictator Peron. In Chile, bachelor President Alessandri is trying to get Chile back to financial solvency...
...while Peru's Prado drew cheers, his navy brass was quietly concluding a deal to buy two cruisers from Britain for $4,000,000. President Jorge Alessandri of neighboring Chile, who earlier had assailed the "ruinous competition" in weapons, observed that "it is not a logical attitude to propose a conference and then to buy new arms." And despite Frondizi's stand, Argentine officers were in Washington purchasing 28 F-86F Sabre jets...
...they attempted was nothing less than regrafting a severed limb to a trunk, although a successful operation after so long a time has never been recorded.* The conditions looked promising. The severed leg had been tipped up at an angle, and it was drained of blood; had blood remained, ruinous clots would have formed. The doctors' first job was to restore the blood flow, thus restore some life to the limb. Before cleaning the leg fully, they stitched together the ends of the main artery, then the main vein. Quickly taking circulation from the trunk, the leg turned from...