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...stormy battle for control of the 1,120,000-member United Steelworkers union, President David McDonald last week lost a prophetic skirmish. McDonald's rival for the president's post is Steelworkers' Secretary-Treasurer I. W. (for lorwith Wilbur) Abel, 56, who for twelve years had worked side by side with McDonald. But over the years the rank and file has found McDonald, 62, to be more and more remote from hearthside problems; sensing this, Abel decided to risk a cozy future in pensioned retirement by challenging McDonald in the union elections to be held next month...
...completely bogged down. It takes three years for some such cases to be resolved. Instead of working to soothe such gripes himself, McDonald has been in the habit of sending out his competent, hard-working secretary-treasurer, I. (for lorworth, a name of Welsh derivation) W. (for Wilbur) Abel...
...mortality. At the top (see opposite) two large panels picture the crucifixion of Christ and the death of the Virgin Mary, her body supported by two angels before its assumption into heaven. Below (see overleaf), Manzù evokes scenes of death from the sacred history of the church-Abel clubbed by his brother Cain, St. Joseph waiting calmly for the ebbing of life, the first Christian martyr St. Stephen being stoned by a Jerusalem mob, Gregory VII dying on his papal throne. The agony of modern death is shown as well: a Bergamo partisan hanged upside down by the Fascists...
...Peter's Sistine Chapel ceiling. In 1947 the Holy Office denounced as "obscene" a Manzù crucifixion scene that depicted a totally naked Christ. Last year, after viewing a plaster cast of the doors, Vatican representatives objected to four of the panels as too profane: Cain and Abel, death by hanging, death of a mother, death in space. Manzù, who is not a practicing Roman Catholic, staged a studio sit-in, finally got his own way by threatening not to finish the doors...
STRANGERS ON A BRIDGE, by James B. Donovan. As onetime defense counsel for Soviet Spy Rudolf Abel, Lawyer Donovan reviews the trials and recounts his role in the subsequent spy-thriller negotiations that led to a dramatic moment of the cold war-the exchange of Colonel Abel for U-2 Pilot Francis Powers...