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...Under Secretaries Andrew Cordier and Ralph Bunche. India's Under Secretary Chakravarthi Narasimhan-now dubbed the "Congo Club." By vote of the General Assembly. West Africa's Sierra Leone (pop. 2,500,000; area 27,940 sq. mi.) became the U.N.'s 100th member, just before the Security Council settled down near by to fight over Russia's package deal on two other membership applications, those of Mauritania and Outer Mongolia-a knotty problem that might affect the fate of Red China's bid for admission later...
...estimates that less than $1 million a year is spent on legal research, and most of this is done by teachers and others working part-time or intermittently on research. Expenditures for legal research, Griswold estimates, are about one-100th of one percent of the $8.4 billion expended last year on scientific research including defense...
...feeling that they are watching The Red Badge of Courage with Shakespeare dubbed into the sound track. Chuck wagon, gunfire, sounding of taps-it is minor ingeniousness at the expense of genius. In the end, the Civil War trick seems merely a capitalization on the war's 100th anniversary fever, and in 1976 Troilus will probably be done again at Stratford set at Valley Forge...
...great theme for his art, the female nude, and he spent more than 40 years portraying its inexhaustible harmonies. Last week most of his women, each a study in curving grace (see color), were assembled in Paris from Europe, Canada and the U.S. to pay him tribute on the 100th anniversary of his birth...
Divines from the East. The enthronement of the 100th Archbishop was a splendid ceremony. Never in history had the Anglican Communion rallied such a massing of the cloth as turned out at the 800-year-old Canterbury Cathedral to honor the new Primate of All England. More than 1,000 prelates walked in a mile-long procession to the clamor of bells, their many-colored robes billowing in the summer breeze. There were Anglican bishops, Scottish and Free churchmen, European Lutherans, and Old Catholic bishops from The Netherlands in the stiff white ruffs of a Van Dyck painting. Among...