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...American Unitarian Association with a 998-delegate convocation in Boston that voted unanimously in favor of a "federal union" with the 53,000-member Universalist Church. The well-dressed, easygoing Unitarians enlivened their sessions with jokes instead of hymns; one suggested that the new united church be named "Uni" for Universalist and "tarian" for Unitarian. Another defined the difference between the two denominations: "The Universalist thinks that God is too good to send men to Hell, and the Unitarian thinks that men are too good to be sent there...
...issued a carefully worded official statement. The dangers of germs as a war weapon had been grossly exaggerated, he said, but "an active research program on biological war fare ... is being conducted in the interests of national defense." Last week in Baltimore, Bacteriologist Perrin H. Long of Johns Hopkins Uni versity, addressing doctors interested in civil defense against atom bombs, called bacteriological warfare "bunk." Scientific knowledge of the subject at the moment, he said, does not point to its use as a successful tactical weapon. Washington had no comment...
...decision, the U.S. court of appeals in Washington held that the Government's loyalty program-created two years ago by presidential order-is constitutional. Loser of the decision was Miss Dorothy Bailey, a slim, 39-year-old Uni versity of Minnesota graduate who was fired from her $8,000-a-year job in the U.S. Employment Service because President Truman's three-man Loyalty Review Board found "reasonable grounds" for believing she was "disloyal" to her Government...
Professor Heinrich Deiters of Berlin Uni versity in the Russia sector announced that hereafter no student would be per mitted to pass the final examination un less he knew the Russian tongue...
...evening, passing up a Club Unión reception, the President took in the dancing in the Parque Central. As he sat on a park bench watching the capital's famously handsome señoritas walk by arm in arm, some drunks raised a cheer for the government's bitterest enemy, exiled ex-President Rafael Calderón Guardia. Ulate forbade their arrest. "Let them viva whom they wish," he said...