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Political Change. Under Fanfani's plan, Nenni's Socialists would get no Cabinet seats. They would support the government in Parliament by backing measures they find agreeable, abstain on others. In the case of many needed reforms, cooperation would not be difficult, but conflict will almost certainly come over such issues as Nenni's demands for nationalization of the power industry, his neutralism in foreign policy...
...rise at dawn to recite Matins and Lauds before Mass, spend four hours or more daily in choral prayer, observe silence after the last service of the day, Compline. Stricter congregations, such as the Trappists and the Camaldolese, rise for prayer around 2 in the morning, keep perpetual silence, abstain from meat entirely...
...Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, who had maneuvered skillfully throughout, declared himself "gratified" that Nationalist China's rights in the U.N. had been reinforced, while Russia's Valerian Zorin said he was convinced that "many nations who were compelled to vote against or abstain from this resolution will vote in favor at the next session...
...second marriage is adulterous and therefore sinful and evil, how can she sustain the public image that she and hubby No. 2 are living as man and wife (and, in fact, encourage the assumption by the elaborate bed-arrangement stratagem) and reconcile this situation with the Biblical injunction to "abstain from all appearance of evil" (/ Thessalonians...
Candidates for National Student Association delegate differed over the role of Radcliffe in NSA. Mary C. S. Henderson '62, declared that NSA does not represent student opinion. Miss Henderson said she would attempt to determine Radcliffe opinion on all major issues before NSA conferences. She will abstain from voting at the convention on issues on which she lacks the backing of a "clear majority...