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...founder of the American Library in Paris, a onetime printer's devil who left nothing to chance in his meticulously compiled Home Books of quotations, verse, proverbs and maxims -a lifelong opus of more than 30,000 pages-marked by artful delving into literary sources from Greek preachments ("Abstain from beans"-Pythagoras) to English epigrams ("Tell it to the Marines"-Charles II to Mr. Samuel Pepys); after a long illness; in Chillicothe, Ohio...
...Cheerful Childhood. All the Camaldolese sisters rise at 4 for prayer, observe silence for most of the day, abstain entirely from meat during Lent and Advent. But Sister Nazarena practices a degree of asceticism that is extraordinary even for her order. She is one of the few nuns in the world with ecclesiastical permission to attempt the hermitlike life known as reclusion. Her only contacts with the outside world are with the priest who daily gives her communion and with the convent abbess who visits her from time to time. This week Sister Nazarena and her sister nuns are busy...
Burned Bodies. An overwhelmingly affirmative vote is expected, especially since the Europeans will probably abstain. The French government will then formally hand over sovereignty to the F.L.N. The first of the F.L.N. exiles-including the 35,000-man F.L.N. army based in Tunisia and Morocco-will return home. The referendum is to be followed by a three-year transitional period during which the French army will carry out a phased withdrawal, though still retaining the Mers-el-Kebir naval base and the Reggane atomic testing grounds in the Sahara. At the end of that period, general elections will be held...
...Fanfani kept on notable Christian Democrats in sensitive external affairs posts-moderate Foreign Minister Antonio Segni, a strong Common Market supporter, and rightist Defense Minister Giulio Andreotti, who is pro-NATO. The Nenni Socialists got no Cabinet jobs, but agreed to vote in parliament for government proposals they approve, abstain on proposals they dislike. With Nenni Socialist backing, Fanfani's new regime could count on 386 out of 595 voting members of the Chamber of Deputies...
...perfectly clear that they could not follow Mr. Rusk's logic, that they could not, in fact, see that sending coffee and Ambassadors to Cuba would injure the Alliance, Mr. Rusk's efforts shifted direction. To his credit, he persuaded Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Mexico to abstain from his resolution rather than voting against...