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...week formally accepted his titular Roman church (a parish in Rome is traditionally allocated to every cardinal). The squalid neighborhood surrounding the medieval Santa Maria in Trastevere is heavily Communist, but it turned out to give him Rome's biggest welcome to any cardinal within memory. From the altar Wyszynski asked for the peoples' prayers "for myself and for my poor martyred country. Poland has always been, is still today, and always will be the outer rampart of Christianity...
...secret police arrested the joint Liberal-Conservative presidential candidate, Guillermo León Valencia, in Cali (TIME, May 13). But outside Bogotá's La Porciuncula Church the troops stormed the church itself as well as student demonstrators. Just as a priest raised the chalice at the altar, two tear-gas bombs exploded. Eyes streaming, the priest turned to the congregation. "A curse on the tyrant!" he thundered. "A curse upon the man who has led the nation to this situation...
...huge roadside cross. A fortnight ago, at the annual renewal of national vows to the Madonna of Czestochowa, 500,000 Poles turned out at the shrine where King John Casimir dedicated his throne and country to Our Lady Queen of Poland just 300 years ago. On an open-air altar high above the plains surrounding the shrine, a mere speck of red to most of the crowd, Cardinal Wyszynski celebrated Mass, opening a nine-year novena that will end in the 1,000th anniversary of Poland's beginning as a Christian land...
...months of exile in the Seychelles Islands had made him no readier 19 accept Britain's offer of limited self-government for Cyprus, no less insistent on enosis, i.e., union of Cyprus and Greece. He defiantly eulogized Cyprus' EOKA fighters for their "sacred sacrifice on the altar of freedom," proclaimed "our irrevocable decision to throw off the yoke of slavery." Cried he: "The arguments of the British government for holding on to the island cannot be put above self-determination. Neither can Middle East oil or the so-called defense of the free world from the soil...
...issues. And in The Bachelor Party these insights have been skillfully translated to the screen by Director Delbert Mann, who made Marty. The scenes in the subway and the office are first-rate epigrams of locale. The reluctant groom C Philip Abbott) is a hilarious but touching study of altar nerves ("She's going to expect a lot. She's a widow"). The hardened bachelor (Jack Warden), young but not so young as he used to be, is also pathetic. "Home?" he laughs. "What do I wanna go home fuh? I awready read alia papuhs." But nobody...