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...mind. Christians, he felt, were too much inclined to dismiss Communist ideology as "barren materialism." But Communism "succeeds because it is not materialism. All things are given value and purpose and drawn into a huge vision for the totality of man and the world." In contrast, Christianity has shrunk until it has become little more than "a support to our weakness, companion to our loneliness, counselor to our neuroticisms, and heavenly confirmer of our national purpose." What is needed is an all-encompassing Christian vision-"truer, vaster and tougher than the Marxist vision," with a core of spirituality illuminating "economics...
Many newspaper publishers question whether such sheer bulk has carried the U.S. Sunday newspaper several compass points off journalism's true course. While the typical metropolitan Sunday paper has grown from 111 to 243 pages in the last 20 years, its news content has shrunk from 11.6% to 6.5%. Unlike its slender-and more single-minded-daily brethren, which are deeply embedded in the work week, the Sunday paper must snare that most elusive of all readers: the American at play. Two-day weekends, new leisure pursuits, and the emergence of television's mesmeric eye all have conspired...
...WESTERN EUROPE. Soon after World War II, Western Europe seemed ripe for Communism. Yet France has not had a Communist in its Cabinet since May 1947; the Italian Communist Party, biggest in the West, has shrunk from a peak of 2,500,000 to 1,700,000 last year. Economically, Free Europe is in an unprecedented boom and moving toward political unity-the result of a remarkable alliance between capitalism and democratic socialism. All of this confounds Leninist-Stalinist dogma, which in 1952 predicted that the industrially advanced nations would destroy themselves in a shooting war over foreign markets...
...surgery begins, the cellular engine may have already shrunk from starvation (for example, that caused by cancer of the gullet or stomach), from infection, or from the storage of excess water, as in the edema that goes with congestive heart failure. The faltering engine gradually loses its power to deliver blood-borne nutrients to the muscles. Then the most vulnerable points, said Dr. Moore, are in the diaphragm and the muscles between the ribs. And the effects are most severe on breathing and coughing. The cause of death in surgical patients, he said, is seldom found in the heart, brain...
...Japan, which like Britain must live on its foreign trade, increasing imports and decreasing exports ultimately spell economic disaster. Last week came news that the nation's foreign-exchange reserves had dropped more than $100 million in August alone, will have shrunk from $2 billion to $1.4 billion by the end of fiscal 1961. Frantically, Masamichi Yamagiwa, Governor of the Bank of Japan, called for import curbs and a substantial rise in Japan's already high 6.9% bank rate, to discourage businessmen from borrowing expansion capital...