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...CHRISTIAN ANTI-COMMUNISM CRUSADE, led by Dr. Fred Schwarz, 48, a genial, Australian-born physician and onetime Baptist lay preacher. Schwarz began his crusade in 1953, has become one of the principal figures of the rightist revival. Better read and less inflammatory than most of his counterparts, he avows it his purpose "fundamentally to inform, to teach, to educate" about Communism. He has drawn crowds of up to 15,000 in cities across the U.S., persuaded 41 mayors of California towns to declare an antiCommunism week, plans to invade New York City next July in "the biggest thing they...
...dinner party for Dodd, U.N. and diplomatic guests, and the best of Elisabethville society. When a sedan with U.N. license plates drove up, the soldiers were sure some kind of plot was being hatched. Quickly they surrounded the car, shouting and gesticulating wildly at the two startled occupants. Australian-born George Ivan Smith, acting U.N. chief in Katanga, and Brian Urquhart, a Briton transferred to the Congo from U.N. Manhattan headquarters only a few days before...
Economist McMahon, an Australian-born fellow of Oxford's Magdalen College, identifies three common and conflicting views of the U.S. economy...
...dispute was touched off by Australian-born Conductor Denis Vaughan. While studying Italian opera in Italy, Vaughan, 34, was struck by the variations between different printed editions of Puccini's operas. He visited Ricordi, turned his attention to Verdi and began comparing printed scores with manuscripts. Eventually, Ricordi officials confiscated Vaughan's notes and banned him from the archives, but not before he had made some surprising discoveries: there are 27,000 errors in printed versions of Falstaff, 8,000 in the Requiem, 18,000 in Tosca. Examples, from Falstaff...
...Australian-born Congregationalist A. Campbell Garnett, philosophy professor at the University of Wisconsin and past president of the American Philosophical Association, thinks that most theologians have taken to playing a kind of word game of their own that has no relevance to the needs of ordinary men. For example, Paul Tillich, America's most eminent theologian, talks of God as "Being Itself" or "Ultimate Reality"-a hard kind of God to worship, much less to love...