Word: visione
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Afterward, the Pope greeted the only survivor among the three children who reported seeing the Fátima vision-Lucia dos Santos, now a 60-year-old Carmelite nun-and conferred briefly with Portuguese Dictator Antonio de Oliveira Salazar. Eleven hours after his arrival, Paul was winging back to Rome. Whatever its temporal effects on peace, many Catholics regarded the Pope's visit as a religious incongruity. To encourage ecumenism with Protestants, the Second Vatican Council did not emphasize Mary, and the exaggeration of Marian devotion in Catholicism has since declined. In the light of Paul's conservatism...
...difference, notes Wisconsin Regent Kenneth Greenquist, is that "there is no balance sheet with a university-you could make a mistake and not know it for a generation." California Regent Edward Carter contends that what a regent really needs is a diversified "experience of life and the breadth of vision that comes from it, since by the time problems get to the regents' level they are pretty broad...
...Cook County Hospital, Dr. Irving M. Bush and Dr. J. Lester Wilkey have assembled a color TV cystoscope from standard, commercially available components. Its power of inner vision depends on a system of lenses and a cable of glass fibers, less than one-quarter of an inch in thickness, inserted through the urethra, to carry the intense light from a 1 00,000-ft. -candle source and to carry back an image of what is reflected from the bladder wall. Using local and spinal anesthesia, the Cook County doctors have been able to see: the inflamed areas in cystitis...
...Vision & Conscience. Johnson's record is all the more remarkable in light of the fact that federal district judges-314 of them in 97 U.S. district courts throughout the country-are more vulnerable to local pressures than any other members of the federal bench. Not only is a district judge drawn from his locality; he almost always owes his job to his state's dominant politicians-particularly the U.S. Senators. Chosen by men committed to local interests, he is then sworn to uphold national principles that may conflict with those interests...
...Lurleen Wallace now sits as Governor. Yet for Johnson, a rare Republican in, a Democratic state, legal vision and the dictates of conscience have always outweighed local pressure. He rejects labels-liberal, conservative or any other. His sole cause is not civil rights but the law. "I'm not a segregationist," he says, "but I'm not a crusader, either. I don't make the law. I don't create the facts. I interpret...