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Italian headline writers found a welcoming name for 54-year-old Soviet Polit-burocrat Mikhail Suslov: "The Butcher of Budapest." The butcher, accompanied by Russia's ranking woman Communist, Ekaterina Furtseva, was on his way to Rome to lay down the line to the eighth congress of the Italian...
Alongside the practical physics belongs Parry's fierce concentration. He spends as much time just thinking about his shot as fondling it in the putting circle. Parry spent many of his nights alone in his ascetic bedroom, the lights dim. his weighty frame slack on the bed. From his...
For lay families the Methodist Publishing House has launched a spanking new slick-paper magazine called Together. Edited by Leland D. Case, onetime editor of The Rotarian (circ. 302,202), this 88-page "Midmonth Magazine for Methodist Families" aims to have something for everybody. Manhattan's crowd-pulling Preacher...
In a last-ditch attempt to stop the violence, local Congress Party leaders called in one of Gandhi's most respected followers, Morarji Desai, an ascetic, deeply religious Gujarati, who as Chief Minister of Bombay has proved himself one of India's best administrators and a likely successor...
Died. Giovanni Papini, 75, brilliant Italian philosopher (A Finished Man) and biographer (Dante Vivo, Michelangelo), author of the bestselling Life of Christ (1921), a celebrated but intensely personal act of repentance by which he tried to atone for his early, noisy atheism; after long illness; in Florence, Italy. A revolutionary...