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Scout (Mary Badham) is six when the story begins, and her brother Jem (Phillip Alford) is ten. Their mother is dead, and they live with their father (Gregory Peck), a lawyer named Atticus Finch. One day they hear a peculiar squeak in Miss Rachel Haverford's collard patch...
...renew the dialogue between Belgians and Congolese," said De Schrijver plaintively. The Socialist opposition wanted De Schrijver and the government to be ready to negotiate independence now with the Africans. "Why wait for elections when you know the major parties will boycott it?" demanded Socialist Leader Léon Collard...
...equal the New York Herald Tribune's wisecracking Sports Columnist Red Smith, who dealt with the convention like an athletic contest, sprinkled his copy with sports allusions and such gems as his description of Happy Chandler's campaign grin ("A hawg-jowl smile, meaty and succulent, with collard greens on the side"), Governor Frank Clement's coiffure ("He wears a small round part in his dark hair"), and political pundits ("sports experts with their shirttails tucked...
Shouts & Rumbles. The Catholics began to worry. When Minister Collard proposed last December to reduce the parochial-school subsidy by $10 million, to $82 million (v. $170 million for the secular schools) the Catholics' worry grew into ire. "I found that parents in some cities had no choice but to send their children to a Catholic school because there were not enough state schools," Collard -said. "It was our duty to open more state schools . . ." Last week, when the government invoked and won a vote of confidence on its subsidy proposals, Catholics all over Belgium rallied into protest action...
Clubs & Clangs. "Down with Collard!" the crowd began shouting. Rocks, oranges, tomatoes and firecrackers flew at the police as the demonstrators tried to converge in the city's center. Near the North Station mounted police walked their horses into the screaming demonstrators, and fire hoses were turned against the crowd. Police used truncheons and rifle butts to break up group after group...