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...resident correspondent in Saigon for the National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service, Columban Father Patrick O'Connor, has reported much in accord with the conclusions reached lately by independent correspondents sent over by TIME and other media. Thus you reported in the Sept. 20 issue that "the Buddhist rebellion was directed by monks who were also consummate politicians, who were less interested in redressing religious injustices than in overthrowing the Diem regime." Father O'Connor reached somewhat the same conclusion in an Aug. 2 dispatch...
Listening to Professor Quaeritor, one almost imagines himself in Jivarro territory. Books on sex habits of the Mayas are alternated with relics of pre-Columban civilizations. Bamboo furniture decorates his office in Widener 5000. Quaeritor got a Harvard Scholarship, the regional jungle grant, and came to Harvard in 1912. Since then he has spent his life commuting between Cambridge and his beloved jungle...
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