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Stripped of their Habsburg empire after World War I, neutralized by the belated World War II peace treaty of 1955, the Austrians have become a country without a cause. They cannot align their armies with East or West, are forbidden to reunite with Germany. But they cannot be stopped from having patriotic ambitions...
Ayub rules through a Cabinet of three generals and eight nonpolitical civilians, four each from East and West Pakistan. Ayub listened hard to West Germany's Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard when he passed through, and has since leaned heavily for economic advice on Wilhelm Vocke, former president of West Germany's State Bank...
...with a stethoscopic tour of Biblical history. "Heart disease," he said, "probably killed Adam." "I thought original sin killed Adam, Doctor," murmured Alabama's Lister Hill. White: "I believe that heart disease is our fault and not 'God's will.' " But what about Eve? asked West Virginia's Jennings Randolph. "Eve escaped," said White, warming to the topic. "Ladies have a great advantage with respect to coronary thrombosis. They do not get it until 50-odd. Men get it in the 30s." "I shall not pursue the point," pursued Randolph. "I did desire to know...
...over the Far East, 19th century Christian missionaries tried to win the heathen with the hymn-huffing harmonium. Now from West German Protestant Theologian Ernst Benz comes an attack on the meek little organ as an instrument of "tyranny and dictatorship" that smothers rather than kindles the spread of Christian music in Asia. Some rebellious young Americans are using the phonograph, Dr. Benz reports, but this "increases the dangerous identification of Christian religion with Western technology." The real need is encouragement of native musicians using native instruments to perform the finest Christian music in their own way. "Freedom fighters must...
Some scholarly junkets operate on the principle that lofty aims are more effective if all the aiming is not in the same direction. Eight Cantabrigians who will set out in June for Arguin Island, off the Atlantic coast of French West Africa, in a 15-ton ketch called Daisy of Maldon, plan to do hydrographic surveys for the Admiralty, poke archaeologically at a 18th century Portuguese fort, skindive for wrecks, and test the effects of a four-man jazz combo on African ears. "Also," says Expedition Leader Anthony Churchill (no kin), "we may try distilling gin from seaweed." Oxford...