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Waagenaar, a freelance journalist who lives in Rome, has documented his case sufficiently to withstand all counterattacks so far. The Vatican has made only perfunctory denials of his charges, perhaps hoping to undermine them by appearing unimpressed. Many Jews in Italy, instead of being inflamed by Waagenaar's book, seem to wish that the whole argument could be ended. But as long as the wartime generation lives, the inquisition of Pius (now a candidate for Catholic sainthood) is likely to go on; and despite new evidence like Waagenaar's, there is little prospect of a final verdict. During...
...interviews with TIME reporters across the country, most depression patients who had been "cured" or were well on the way to recovery questioned Eagleton's fitness to withstand the stresses of the presidency or even the vice presidency. The sample was necessarily small but was probably typical of a much larger group. The patients were also nearly unanimous in feeling that the Eagleton affair had not damaged their self-image or their image in the eyes of associates. Realistically appraising the degrees of their own recovery and the hazard of relapse under pressure, they confirmed the adage "It takes...
...science and technology." American scientists, who have sent two spacecraft flying past Venus, were quick to agree. By broadcasting from the surface 37 minutes longer than Venera 7 in December 1970, the latest space shot showed that the Soviet engineers had 1) designed a cooling system that could temporarily withstand the enormous surface temperatures of Venus (more than 900° F.) and 2) built a spacecraft that would not buckle under the planet's crushing surface pressures (about 100 times those of the earth...
...fact, in an adversary proceeding that is the essence of democracy, every election poses a complaint and offers a remedy of sorts. This process of criticism is supposed to hone down, and largely has, those principles or procedures or institutions that have proved structurally sound, like towers that withstand the tempest, but need the remorseless shaping that criticism alone can provide...
...yoga-style in the bathroom after a shower; Betts does it with a mantra (the repetition of a syllable pattern). "I've been meditating for 30 years," Sam told Candy. "I regard it as just concentrated prayer. It lets me gather up strength for the day to withstand the barbs in the Times...