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...Weil-Bred. Romanticized in the novels of Jack London, sled dogs were immortalized after the epic dash to carry diphtheria serum to Nome in 1925. Since then, though the airplane and bulldozer have displaced the Husky as Arctic freight haulers, the Huskies have served man well. Shearer, president of a Boston furniture store, served in World War II, as did many of the other dogsled racers, with the Arctic search & rescue units of the Air Force...
Because it likes the lure of the loss leader, no one has fought fair trade laws longer than Manhattan's R.H. Macy & Co. But last week Macy's signed a cease-fire with some of its enemies. Vice President Richard Weil Jr. announced that the store "had signed a small number of fair-trade agreements on brand-name merchandise." He refused to name the brands or whether they included Sunbeam Mixmasters, which has sued Macy's for price-cutting its products (TIME...
With reference to Simone Weil [TIME, Oct. 1] . . . she belongs to no religious group. She belongs to the "pure in heart" who alone see God. She belongs, like Isaiah and Jesus, like Schweitzer and Kagawa and Father Damien, to the human race-she belongs...
Your footnote to the Sept. 24 article on the Vatican makes the statement that "Roman Catholic theologians believe that the Monophysite theory can lead to the destruction of the very basis of Christianity . . ." Not only Roman, but all orthodox Christianity-Eastern, Anglican and Protestant as weil-follows the Council of Chalcedon in rejecting Monophysitism...
...Simone Weil perhaps a saint? She practiced the kind of self-denial that the world has often recognized as saintly. A wartime refugee in Britain, she virtually starved herself to death at 34 because, though exhausted from overwork, she would not eat more than the ration in occupied France. But what are Christians to make of Simone Weil's attitude toward the church? The Dominican priest who was her spiritual adviser is sure that, had she lived, she would have accepted baptism. Simone Weil doubted it. A brilliant intellectual who found God after wading through agnosticism and Marxism...