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When Governor Sir John Harding declared a state of emergency in Cyprus last month, he decreed jail sentences for demonstrating, death for carrying firearms and "up to twelve strokes with cane, birch or rod" for rioting by school: boys. But still the agitation for enosis (union) with Greece continued. Last week four British Tommies were shot down by Sten gunfire from a passing car; a grenade tossed into an army truck killed its driver...
...tension had been rising for weeks. Among the Louisiana rice marshes and stands of sugar cane around the little (pop. 2,500) town of Erath, 125 miles west of New Orleans, groups of white folks gathered to pass along the latest rumors about the new pastor. Father Labbe was holding catechism classes without the usual row of empty chairs between 650 white and 75 Negro children. He was going to mix the kids all up, people whispered, by putting them in alphabetical order and having them confirmed by the bishop in that order. Father Labbe, it seemed...
Football (Sat. 4:15 p.m., NBC). Southern California v. U.C.L.A. Cane Mutiny Court Martial, starring Lloyd Nolan, Barry Sullivan...
...across the canvas, that gives his work its strength and impact. The Determined No. Each turn of Grosz's early life in Germany seemed only to strengthen his determined no. Born in a lower-middle class innkeeper's family and fatherless at six, Grosz rebelled against his cane-wielding Prussian teachers, and was expelled from school. Turning to art, he made his way through Dresden's Royal Academy of Art, arrived in Berlin shortly before World...
...short speeches, the Assembly went straight to the vote. Government aides sprang to their telephones in a wild effort to rally Faure's supporters. The opposition did likewise. Ailing Communist Chief Maurice Thorez, making his first appearance since he suffered a stroke in 1950, limped in on a cane to cast a vote against Faure. But the dominant fact of the present Assembly is that it fears a return to power by Pierre Mendès-France more than it dislikes Edgar Faure. By threatening the Gaullists with loss of all right-wing support in the next elections, Faure...