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Instead, a new kind of secularism flourishes that uses and supports religion, and in turn is sanctified by it. Europeans, accustomed to a sharper confrontation between the two forces, are often puzzled by the U.S. brand of secularism which "is to be found within the churches themselves and is expressed through men and women who are sincerely devoted to religion . . . It is not secularism as such that is characteristic of the present religious situation in this country but secularism within a religious framework, the secularism of religious people...
...everyone's surprise, the Russians found themselves up against a better-conditioned crew. The Canadians not only were sharper at maneuvering on the wind-chopped Thames, but they had more strength left for a last-minute sprint. The Red rowers finished 1¼ lengths behind...
Nevertheless, in 1954 the U.S. consumed but 83 million bbls.-4,000,000 bbls. less than the alltime peak in 1947. In terms of per capita consumption, the dip is even sharper; beer sales last year were down almost 15% from the wartime high of 18.7 gals, per person. And beer is not the only beverage industry hit: hard liquor sales have slumped nearly 30% from the postwar high, to 1.18 gals, per capita. And sales of soft drinks are also down...
Seldom had the U.S. seen its scientists in sharper public disagreement-and on a matter so immediately involving the health of millions. After a closed huddle in Manhattan, a committee of 26 polio and public-health experts last week publicly agreed with the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis that inoculations of Salk vaccine should continue through the summer polio season. The probable benefits, the committee reasoned, outweighed the possible hazards. In Washington four days later, Tennessee's James Percy Priest called 15 topflight vaccine experts before the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Subcommittee on Health and Science...
...water spectacle at Jones Beach, take in a couple of scenes from Julius Caesar at the Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ont., listen to a jam session on New Orleans' Bourbon Street and switch to Tijuana to watch the Mexican comic pantomimist, Cantinflas, fight a bull with nothing sharper than...