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...into Philadelphia last week, the event epitomized political history in the making. The key state of Pennsylvania was getting ready to elect Ed Martin to the U.S. Senate. Ed Martin is an unmistakable Republican. The city on which he marched, in the last days of his campaign, is the shrine of traditional Republicanism. And Republicanism, after 14 years of ineffective opposition, was unmistakably resurgent all around...
Last week 4,000 top-rank U.S. scientists and medicos went to Massachusetts General to celebrate the centennial of Morton's and Warren's historic operation. After reverent visits to the famed Ether Dome, now a medical shrine, the scientists settled down, in a huge tent pitched outside the hospital, to a three-days' appraisal of the ether century. The consensus, as summed up by Dr. Henry Knowles Beecher, Massachusetts General's anesthetist in chief: Anesthesia "was perhaps man's greatest and most original discovery. . . . If, at a stroke, the world's poverty were...
...rice balls which he had arranged to have tied to convenient roadside trees the day before. A younger, less durable friend followed on a bicycle, but Matsumoto breezed into Tokyo with enough wind left to tell startled bystanders about his run. He also wheezed a challenge: at a Shirakawa shrine festival he would lift a 70-kan (579-lb.) stone, would give a prize of ten yen (65?) to anyone who could lift more. Sneered Matsumoto: "Youngsters these days are too soft...
Carl Sandburg, 68-year-old poet and all-out Lincoln biographer, squared himself for a faintly eerie tribute from his admirers. In Galesburg, Ill., the Carl Sandburg Association had restored the little cottage where he was born, and next month the shrine would be dedicated...
Bishop Ruesga's own church in Calzada de Guadalupe, a starkly simple building in a land where churchly magnificence rules, is in plain sight of the famed Church of the Virgin of Guadalupe, chief shrine of Mexican Catholicism. The church's few small stained-glass windows are protected by chicken wire from rocks hurled by passing Catholics. Its façade is always mud-spattered. Once an attempt was made to burn the building...