as a brake. Suddenly, in the last two generations, the foolhardy tho heroic victories of medical science have thrown away the brake, and opened a Pandora's Box with new horrors we have only begun to apprehend.

In October, the august World Council of Churches (with Eastern Orthodoxy dissenting) published a report which somewhat approved contraceptives, denied that unlimited rutting was a Christian virtue, and warned of disaster if population growth went unchecked.

Catholic spokesmen called the whole issue a fake, called childbearing a sacred duty, assured the world God would provide for extra millions of hungry mouths. The State Dept. said world food production had increased ahead of population in 1952-57. But food production is only a minor headache.

Others said the advances of medical science are insanely preserving a far greater proportion of inheritable defects and diseases, and called for selective breeding. "We do that much even for pigs."

In December, Episcopal Bishop James Pike dropped the hot potato into the laps of presidential hopefuls. John Kennedy, prettyboy Roman Catholic, promptly burned his fingers on it. Ike and Truman both. said it wasn't a real political issue. How wrong they are! This is probably the most serious political issue facing mankind, not excluding the hot clash of national ideologies.

Anyhow, bug expert Harrold Jones of Memphis sez we're losing the race to the insects, and Arthur C. Clarke in Harper's suggested encouraging more homosexuality. SURVEY

There was Johnny Ray, who fainted, then broke down and cried, when an all-woman jury found him

"not guilty" of soliciting a Detroit vice-cop..

There was Mrs. Ralph Heidal, whose recent Miami marriage became national news. Seems she used to be Charles McLeod, one of those Army privates who made the Denmark circuit....

There was erstwhile Georgian prince, David Mdivani, last of the "marrying Mdivanis" who filed a million dollar suit in Tucson charging another woman with alienating the affections of his oil-rich wife....

There was the Tucson man who paid $25,000 to a fake cop and 2 accomplices who "arrested" him in L.A.'s Pershing Square tearoom . . .

There was Chicago socialite Mrs. Virginia Dore, who died in Genoa City, Wisc., leaving a fortune to a young co-ed whom she'd lavishly sponsored in school. Mrs. Dore's mother (who'd been arguing with her) revealed letters expressing deep affection which her daughter. had exchanged with the co-ed, who, like another long-time woman friend to whom Mrs. Dore left a large sum of money, had worked at the fancy eating resort operated by Mrs. Dore. . . .

There was Dewin Ray Dockery, 29, who'd been quiet thru most of his Montgomery, Ala., trial for murder of aircraft worker Willie Heatherly, 28, whom he'd met in a Birmingham bar. Speaking almost apologetically in his own defense, Dockery said he hit Heatherly with a brick after the latter made homosexual advances. Heatherly's body was found Aug. 9, 58, in a thicket, with a belt knotted about the neck. Dockery, who's since "become a Christian," apologized for offending the dead man's family (including the sheriff of Cullman county) by such a charge, produced a fellow inmate of Kilby to testify he'd had

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