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...Church acknowledges that the most tested faith may be the strongest, that people may grow spiritually under tension; but the Church has no faith in strain per se. And certainly a continuous process of questioning will not in itself appear as a positive good, either to the Catholic Church or to Catholics...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Agnosticism, Misunderstanding Challenge University Catholics | 9/21/1959 | See Source »

...prizefighters jewels of virtuosity. And woe betide the motorist who, after an accident, neglects to grease a police reporter's outstretched palm: next day's story may suggest the innocent driver was drunk or (if he is married) in the diverting company of an unidentified señorita...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: News Space for Sale | 9/7/1959 | See Source »

Vaccination? By now, the SE (for Stewart-Eddy) polyoma (multiple-tumor) virus has hurdled the species barrier and caused cancers not only in mice but in rats and in Syrian and Chinese hamsters. In rabbits, for some strange reason, it causes only benign tumors. So far, Drs. Stewart and Eddy have not been able to infect monkeys with their virus, but a determined effort to do so is under way at Roswell Park Institute. Patricia, a lone baby monkey harboring polyoma virus, has her own spotless nursery where she is cared for by Nurse Althea Higgins. Drs. Stewart and Eddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cornering the Killer | 7/27/1959 | See Source »

...only authority is the cocky rebel army. "There is no trouble here, señor," said Lieut. Ramón Pérez, 32, commander of a tiny highway garrison called El Cobre, rousing himself from his afternoon siesta. Pérez' men had manned a .30-cal. machine gun on the guardhouse roof, and they stopped and searched all passing trucks. "If anybody we stop does not have identification-prisoner!" grinned Pérez. Off duty, the bearded, long-haired soldiers lounge about reading the leftist official army organ. Olive Green. Slogan: "The army is the people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CUBA: Class War | 7/20/1959 | See Source »

Since January the Buenos Aires' cost-of-living index has soared from 1,610 to 2,665 (from a base of 100 in January 1943). Señ Ferrer finds bread up from 4? to 8? a kilo, eggs from 14? to 47? a dozen, vegetables and fruits trebled in price. Husband Vittorino, 38, no longer goes noontimes to a restaurant; instead, he takes a sandwich and a bottle of bouillon to work. He has even given up his cheap, locally made cigarettes. His paycheck is fixed at 5,200 pesos a month (around $60 on last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Austerity for Dinner | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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