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...Pentagon that aides recently were able to count up the number of major decisions he had made in the previous month and produce the precise figure of 629). No item, right down to the number of beds to be installed in an Air Force hospital, is too trivial for his attention. Yet not even his critics argue that he bogs down in detail...
...whole place is run by the police. Armed soldiers and government spies are everywhere. Priests and nuns are imprisoned for trivial reasons." So charges Roman Catholic Father William Dowds, a South African-born missionary, of the country where Christian missions are currently faring worst: the Sudan. Since last November, 77 Catholic priests (including Dowds), brothers and nuns, as well as 28 Protestant missionaries, have been exiled from the Sudan. As of last week, only about 50 missionaries, many of them aged and ill, were left to care for the 500,000 Sudanese Christians, four-fifths of them Catholics...
...think that it does. They have taken another short but promising step toward control of viral infections by using IDU against herpes simplex, the virus of fever blisters, in cases where the sores had broken out on the upper lip, nostril or cheek. Doctors usually dismiss cold sores as trivial, but the virus may cause a fatal inflammation if it spreads to the brain; it can cause blindness if it reaches the eyes. Some of the British patients already had corneal infections...
...assigned, without clear coordination, to private and Government facilities ranging from Sunnyvale, Calif., to Pittsburgh. One key program was held up for four months while an official held a contract on his desk. Said Norris Bradbury, director of the AEC's Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory: "We have seen trivial things like the wrong gaskets being used, which contaminate the system. Crud gets in there. You can trust...
...freedom from the departments, not within them." No doubt he is right, but why assume that it is in the very nature of departments to block reform, that reform must perpetually be supplied by countervailing forces from the outside? The CRIMSON proposal, which predictably we think far from trivial, would try to set in motion pressures within departments to allow students to substitute some other program of study for the thesis in cases where the thesis threatens to become hollow and unprofitable. Perhaps Mr. Jones' gloomy guess is correct; perhaps the attempt to pry departments loose from their rigid...