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Face to Face. About 18 months ago, Ronald Knox, working on a translation of the Autobiography of Ste. Therese of Lisieux, began to feel poorly. In January he had surgery for cancer of the intestine, and the doctors found the disease so far advanced that his condition was hopeless. But before he had known how ill he was, Knox had accepted an invitation to deliver the prestigious Romanes Lecture at Oxford in June. He was still determined...
...neurosis has been discovered: audiophilia, or the excessive passion for hi-fi sound and equipment. The discoverer: Dr. Henry Angus Bowes, clinical director in psychiatry at Ste. Anne's Hospital for veterans at Ste. Anne de Bellevue, Que., himself an audio fan. Tweet by tweet and woof by woof, at a research meeting of the American Psychiatric Association, Psychiatrist Bowes spelled out how audiophiliacs behave...
IRON-ORE shortage is forcing U.S. Steel Corp. to keep 50 of its Great Lakes ore carriers sailing to Jan. 1, and Army Corps of Engineers will hold Sault Ste. Marie locks open until then, instead of normal Dec. 15 closedown. But ore movement will drop to about 77 million tons from last year's 87 million tons. Reason: strikes by steelworkers and lake seamen...
...furor burst because Conant turned a 73-year-old trend into a revolution and left some 2000 dentists "without heritage." He made the Dental School a satellite of the Medical School, which caused such a storm of protest across the country that the new ste-up wasn't recognized by any dental association for seven years. And to cap it all, at a time when only 34 per cent of the American people are receiving adequate dental care, Conant cut Harvard's yearly dentist output from...
...Johannsen helped lay out trails around Lake Placid; soon his services were in demand wherever a North American ski resort was being laid out. Busy as he was, Johannsen never lost his zest for competition. At 60 he finished second in a 32-mile race from Ste. Agathe to Shawbridge, Que. The next year he led a dozen skiers on a 150-mile trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace," remembers a Montreal businessman who went along. "He nearly killed...