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...rule, Fish volunteers shun personal publicity, finding enough reward in help done rather than praise received. Rector Howell believes that the organization has caught on so well because "we need specific outlets to help us show the substance of faith in our lives." Fish, he says, has not only given help to the needy, but has also given the volunteers themselves a new dimension of what Christianity means and a chance to live their faith...
...point of limpness. "Nervousness is bad for the breathing," she explains. Besides, "I don't have to live my reviews. I have something else to go home to"-meaning a husband, Canadian Conductor-Violinist Eugene Kash, and five children, aged two to ten. While most female opera singers shun childbirth for fear that it will some how hurt their voices, Mama Maureen insists that it has extended her range by 21 notes on top and 21 on the bottom, "one for each baby." She travels ten months of the year, with bookings arranged so that she can pop home...
...City liberal bloc has been decisive in the string of Republican successes in New York during the last twenty-five years. They have cheerfully deserted Democrats for Dewey, Ives, Javits, Rockefeller, Lefkowitz, Keating, and, most recently, Lindsay. In local races, they traditionally shun those Democrats against whom the Liberals have run their own candidate or supported the Republican...
Opponents of liberals in the fall elections will probably shun the our raged, ideological rhetoric which contributed to the Goldwater disaster. Ronald Reagan and his corps of public relations advisors realize all too well that such antics can raise lots of money at rallies of Americans for constitutional Action el al, but have no place on the political stump or on TV anymore. Instead Reagan, who probably has better connections with more kooks than any man in the nation, is gearing his campaign to those who have become disenchanted with Governor Brown in the past eight years -- mostly restless Democrats...
While forever warning their patients to shun unnecessary risks, doctors seem to jettison their own advice as soon as they take up flying. In 1964-65, reports the Federal Aviation Agency, 30 U.S. physician pilots died in crashes; in ten cases, the doctors' families died with them. As a result, flying doctors had a fatal-accident rate four times as high as the average for all other private pilots...