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Last week. Laval University made plans for a big change. A rally in Quebec's Coliseum launched a $10 million public subscription campaign to bring Laval up-to-date. The university would spread over an area of one square mile in the spacious St. Foye district. There would be white stone buildings, a swimming pool and broad reaches of campus. It would cost $100 million and the whole job would take 50 years. Premier Maurice Duplessis made the first move: a check for $2,000,000 from the province of Quebec...
...Tulsa's Coliseum, he answered Harry Truman's declaration of war: "Such a threat can prove only . . . that the incumbent Administration is a shambles; that it is dispirited, chaotic, quarrelsome and desperate . . . The Democratic Party, and its splinters, present to the people of the U.S. in this national campaign a sorry spectacle of warring factions, city machines, rebellious elements, pressure minorities, fellow travelers and left-wingers...
...Tell Them to Come." For many years he has lived in Rome, making his home in the convent of the Little Company of Mary, on Celian Hill, not far from the Coliseum. The streetcars clanging past his window disturb him not at all as he sits in his simple room, writing in a hand still firm. A Catholic living in a Catholic retreat, he calls his religion "a matter of sympathy and traditional allegiance, not of philosophy." Says he mischievously: "I believe I am the despair of the nuns here, who hope I'll become pious on my deathbed...
That night in the Los Angeles Coliseum, Poole witnesses the rites of "purification" of Belial Eve and the beginning of the mating season at California's biggest celebration: Belial Day. "His Eminence, the Arch-Vicar of Belial, Lord of the Earth, Primate of California, Servant of the Proletariat, Bishop of Hollywood," explains to Poole that the triumph of his lord was assured by the rise of two doctrines during the pre-atom era: "Progress and Nationalism . . . the theory that Utopia lies just ahead and that, since ideal ends justify the most abominable means, it is your privilege and duty...
...afternoon sun shafted down through the skylights of Ottawa's gloomy, barnlike Coliseum. Floodlights played on the poster portraits of Sir Wilfrid Laurier and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King. Twenty-nine years ago Mr. King had taken over from his longtime friend Sir Wilfrid. Now 1,227 delegates to the National Liberal Convention were picking Mr. King's successor...