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Alfonso Castaldo, 68, Archbishop of Naples, is regarded by the people of his native city as almost a living saint. A poor boy who knew what it was to go hungry ("It does not only affect your stomach, but it may have detrimental effects on your soul"), Castaldo as a priest devoted himself to welfare activities and schools, is also known for his personal charities...
Paul Marie A. Richaud, 71, was born in Versailles, and in 1938 became Bishop of Laval, near Rennes. A zealous promoter of Catholic Action and the French boy scout movement, he was named Bishop of Bordeaux in 1950, appropriately is noted in that wine-producing region for his fine cellar...
Revolution. Students by and large are cool to Martin's revolution; during a half-hour of one television lecture recently, one or two students walked out and four others fell asleep. Most of the rest talked away the time. Said one boy afterward: "I can't concentrate...
Compulsory Spinach. Says Lyttleton of the Latin-or-Greek requirement, which he hopes to upset at the next meeting of the Cambridge Senate: "It's ridiculous. It reminds me of the Victorian dictum, 'It doesn't matter what you teach a boy, as long as he doesn't like it.' " As a boy, Lyttleton did not like Latin, flunked his Cambridge entrance exam the first time, barely squeaked into the university on his second...
...mensas when the Senate meets in the spring? He thinks so, and at Oxford, where his campaign has been watched with interest, there are dons who think that if Cambridge cans the classics, so will Oxford. In the midst of the uproar, it seemed that, as usual, Old Harrow Boy Sir Winston Churchill had said it best (in A Roving Commission): "Naturally, I am biased in favor of boys learning English. I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat...