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...collection of medical talent that accumulated there, two hours driving from the nearest settlement, was a testament to the size of the American health care establishment. Within 45 minutes, the accident victims had been looked over by two doctors and two nurses, bandaged by a service corpsman and given helpful advice by an Eagle Scout with advanced first aid training. An hour later the ambulances and police arrived...
DIED. Samuel Sandmel, 68, scholar, lecturer and internationally recognized authority on the New Testament and its relation to Judaism; in Cincinnati. A Navy chaplain during World War II and the author of 17 books (including We Jews and You Christians, in which he examined the common roots of the two religions) Sandmel, a native Ohioan, lectured on Jewish literature at Vanderbilt University before joining Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Cincinnati, where he taught for 26 years...
Birth Control. The church's hostility to contraception draws from, among other things, the Old Testament command to "be fruitful and multiply" and the need to justify marriage to early Christians in the face of attacks by otherworldly heretics. But contraception did not become a serious issue until the 20th century, when improved techniques-and laxer morals-led to widespread use of birth control devices. By 1930 the Anglican Church hierarchy at the Lambeth Conference reluctantly accepted birth control. Reacting to this, Pope Pius XI issued his encyclical Casti Conubii (On Chaste Marriage), declaring that "the conjugal...
...finally got around to spaceships and galactic travelers; she herself calls Shikasta, her 24th book, "space fiction." This description is accurate enough, but it may mislead some into expecting much less than this dazzling novel actually delivers. Shikasta owes more to Gulliver's Travels and the Old Testament than to Buck Rogers; it is at once a brief history of the world, a tract against human destructiveness, an ode to the natural beauties of this earth and a hymn to the music of the spheres...
Glashow called the award "a testament to the fact that man can find a simplicity and beauty behind the seeming complexity of the world...