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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mobile, Ala., Dr. Frederick H. Olert, pastor of the Second Presbyterian Church in Richmond, Va., raised a religious storm by telling a Reformation Day gathering that "the Roman Catholic Church is not at home in America. It wants to make this country predominantly a Roman Catholic country. [It] can and will win America unless Protestants heal their divisions and get together." Retorted the Very Rev. Andrew C. Smith, Jesuit president of Alabama's Spring Hill College: "If there ever was a time when all Christians ought to stand together, regardless of recognized differences, this seems to be the hour...
...content with elaborate heart-lung machines to permit operations inside a patient's heart, or marrow-chilling techniques to drop his temperature, Dr. Frank Gollan of Nashville VA Hospital combined the two. He has devised a cheap ($250) pump-oxygenator with a refrigerated coil like those used in bars to cool beer. Not yet ready for use on human beings, the machine has dropped a dog's temperature to 55° F., and the animal has made a good recovery after operation...
...National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council an nounced that in cooperation with the American Society for the Advancement of Science, it was about to do something to inspire better high-school science and math teachers. This year a pilot program will start in Arlington, Va. Among the things it hopes to accomplish: raise a scholarship fund to send teachers to any of eight local colleges and universities, open up summer jobs for teachers in local scientific and engineering organizations...
Kluckhohn is the son of Clyde K. Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology, and of Florence R. Kluckhohn, lecture on Sociology. A Raleigh court tried and convicted him of involuntary manslaughter last June in the fatal shooting of Miss Bernice Seawell of Arlington, Va...
Curb Service. In Fairfax County, Va., police looked for the gunman who drove up quietly to the ticket window of a drive-in movie wearing a paper bag over his head with eye holes cut in it, poked a pistol at Cashier Helen Franklin, reached out of the car and grabbed $1,100, drove away...