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Protestants and Roman Catholics finally have a translation of a Bible that they can share. Last week Oxford University Press announced that Boston's uncommon ecumenist, Richard Cardinal Cushing, had given his imprimatur to its Oxford Annotated Bible, an edition of the Revised Standard Version that includes elaborate notes and commentary prepared by leading Protestant scholars. The Bible approved by Cushing contains a translation of the Apocrypha-the 15 Old Testament books found in the Greek Septuagint but not in the Hebrew Bible, twelve of them accepted by Catholics as canonical...
Even in a country where man hunts are not uncommon, it was the biggest in recent history. From one end of Castro's Cuba to the other, the police, the armed forces, the secret security, Castro's network of neighborhood spies and "the entire organized populace" searched for more than two weeks. Their quarry: Angel Betancourt Cueto, the flight engineer who tried to hijack a Cubana Airlines plane March 27th and ended up killing the pilot and a guard before leaping from the plane and escaping (TIME, April 8). Last week Castro finally found his man-and with...
...Justin J. Wolfson recently reported a case in which an eight-day-old baby died because the thermometer had pierced the wall of its rectum. Actual perforation of the rectum appears to be rare, says the A.M.A., but "injury to the rectum by the thermometer is not uncommon. Severe bleeding, ulceration, abscesses, hematomas and scarring have been reported." Autopsies indicate that rectal injury may occur in more than 6% of patients...
...vagrantly like an infant's in sleep, that an old man's eyes sometimes glow like blown embers and sometimes fade out as swiftly and secretly as dusk. Yet within this fraying husk of age, the man from Hannibal stands vibrantly whole, incorrigibly acute, a genius of uncommon sense...
Water shortages are not uncommon in the United States, nor are water surpluses in the form of floods. But the present panic stems not from the fact that shortages exist in the desert states or the prairie states, or even in a city like Los Angeles where the limitations of nature have been brushed aside. These shortages are expected. The present problem concerns the Northeast, where water was apparently as abundant as the concentrated masses who live there. Now, after four seasons of chronic drought, New Yorkers, and to some extent New Englanders, have become as water-conscious as Arizonians...