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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Connoisseurs of the French scene have learned to grade local political ferment in terms of what they call ripeness. Last week, after 26 days without a government, France's political cheese was about as ripe as it could get without rotting on the shelf...
Aramburu thereupon turned back to fighting the painful inflation that makes politically inspired strikes so easy to call. For the past year labor has been caught with wages frozen while prices spiraled up 34%. Aramburu has stoutly refused to grant a wage boost that would redouble inflation. Instead, he has tried to persuade manufacturers and wholesalers to cut prices by cutting profits. After last week's strike he got strong and unexpected help when the influential Roman Catholic Church issued a pastoral letter that declared "business concerns, have a greater duty to reduce their profits than workers to forego...
...Omnibus, which Host Cooke dubs "a vaudeville show embracing several centuries," is large with what it likes to call its "mentortainment" plans: a detailed treatment of America's worsening traffic problem, a history of the bathtub with Bert Lahr, several Metropolitan Opera productions. For the second outing, this Sunday at 4 p.m. E.S.T., Omnibus will feature the first part of "American Trial by Jury" with Boston Barrister Joseph Welch and an "in-depth" look at LIFE...
With this exchange, the Vatican radio station built by Marconi began broadcasting 26 years ago. This week the Vatican radio (call letters: HVJ, which have no particular significance) will go on the air with a far stronger voice: a powerful, new transmitting station (cost: about $3,200,000). Located on a 200-acre tract at Santa Maria di Galeria, twelve miles northwest of Rome, the 100-kw. main transmitter, more powerful by 40 kw. than Marconi's, is equipped with 24 Telefunken directional aerials (designed to overcome variations in signal strength caused by fluctuations in the ionosphere). A second...
...call Augustine a 'sexually repressed monk' is just too funny. Have you read his Confessions'? Parts of it are better than Confidential. But the point is that, through wrestling with the problem of sexual lust, he came to discover God, and to discover himself in the presence...