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...authored his own quirky version of Holy Scripture, The Nazarene Gospel Restored. "In Britain today this ancient baraka, and that of a few unrestored churches and cathedrals, keeps the flickering candle of faith alight." he explained. "Yet, in the name of progress, various ecclesiastical bodies are now trying to supplant the King James version with the New English Bible, a translation carefully purged of all baraka. Though it has sold in advance by the million, the verdict of the countryside is: 'We don't like this book. The old one was holier. If I had to swear an oath...
...symbolism," he concluded. "No one will doubt the laws of logic, but we will recognize that the logic of cause and effect does not have universal application in describing reality." Architecture especially must come to this realization and the symbolism of Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusler must supplant functionalism and superficial facades, Giedlon declared...
...they prevent conception, without intolerable side effects, and, beginning this week, at moderate cost. "Oral contraception," says a doctor in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "has become an accomplished fact." As an accomplished fact, its potentials are vast. In the U.S., oral contraception could, for many people, supplant more awkward, older methods. In the world, the pill could eventually keep the population growth manageable. In the field of morals, it is raising new storms of controversy...
Honors in General Studies would be revivified under Professor Gill's plan. Uniform requirements would supplant the current confusion about cum laude in General Studies. At present, departments have adopted widely differing policies about nomination for the degree; should the Faculty legislation pass, a candidate for Honors in General Studies must receive Honor grades in his field of concentration and two subsidiary fields...
Courier 1B, however successful, is only an experimental job. It communicates with two stations only, and its orbit (500 miles perigee. 750 miles apogee) is too low to bring it in range of all parts of the earth. The Signal Corps plan is to supplant it eventually by three communications satellites spaced around the earth on once-per-day orbits 22.000 miles up. At this altitude each will stay fixed above its own part of the rotating earth. Anyone wanting to send the King James Version-or any message of similar length -from Port Said to Las Vegas or Tokyo...