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...CRIMSON editor Sack had a neat flair for high drama and low humor, too often constricted here within the inelastic form of a news story. He runs afoul of no such limitations in The Butcher. Sack's book splits roughly into halves. The first half outlines the expedition's halting progress to the base of the mountain. It is very funny. He starts from the labor pains of the expedition, when it was busy accumulating radios which refused to work and storing breakfast food--eagerly pressed into the hands of the climbers by an enterprising cereal manufacturer--in the living...
...results, not arguments, to convince the National Assembly, which reconvenes next month, that his government can keep its promise to balance the French budget without raising taxes. At first, Pinay did remarkably well (TIME, April 21 et seq.), but by last week his "save-the-franc" campaign had fallen afoul of man and nature. Foot-and-mouth disease, raging in central France, had ravaged cattle herds, sent beef and veal prices soaring. A hot, rainless summer reduced butter and cheese production, ripened a grape harvest so abundant that the bottom fell out of the wine market. Rearmament cutbacks produced spotty...
...social-service worker's handbook. Says he: "The church is not primarily an agency for social action-the church is primarily a religious agency." Because Morse and other Presbyterians believed in keeping all church social-action agencies subject to official church control, the Presbyterians did not run afoul of some of the embarrassing situations that occurred in other denominations, e.g., the left-wing crusading of the unofficial Methodist Federation for Social Action (TIME...
Many people in this country would like to see the tax-supported little red schoolhouse sprout a steeple. Most of their efforts to build such a structure have run afoul of the Constitution, but there seems to be at least one method which overcomes this obstacle. "Released Time" is its official title, and the Supreme Court declared it legal just last Monday...
...festival time Prime Minister Malan's formula for white supremacy-apartheid (racial segregation)-ran afoul of South Africa's highest court. His administration tottered, and considered dangerous alternatives. The restless and politically awakening Negroes scheduled nationwide demonstrations in protests against his policy. The possibility of civil war hovered over South Africa, and a desperate decision faced Daniel François Malan, who had sown the whirlwind...