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...Renaissance palace off St. Peter's Square, twelve Vatican-appointed "qualifiers" daily scrutinize books from all over the world. They confer regularly with 24 consultants, and if a book is found to be contrary to Catholic faith and morals, nine cardinals review their findings. Together, the three groups form the Holy Office's book-censoring department, and on their recommendation the Pope places works on the Index of Forbidden Books. So far, John XXIII has not Indexed any; Pius XII placed 23 authors on the list, including Jean Paul Sartre, Andre Gide and Alberto Moravia...
Fidel Castro arrives in Washington this week invited there by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. He has dates to confer with Vice President Nixon and to lunch with Acting Secretary of State Christian Herter, will go on to see the press in New York and make a speech before the Harvard Law School Forum. A compulsive explainer. Castro apparently expects to win U.S. sympathy by candor and eloquence-despite his growing record of blaming Cuba's troubles on that "bad neighbor,'' the U.S., and of choosing neutralism as Cuba's cold-war course...
...battle between college boys and parading veterans of World War I. Students were not even very mad at their prexy any longer; Whitney Griswold, who promised to kick out students for any more bad behavior, finally admitted that both sides had cause for grievance, and said he would confer with Mayor Lee. For a fillip, the university prepared this week to play host to a long-planned conference of campus police from 18 Eastern colleges. The cops were to discuss, among other things, how to put down a student disturbance...
...with his policy of paying special attention to U.S. neighbors -demonstrated in his meeting in March 1956 with Mexico's Adolfo Ruiz Cortines and Canada's Louis St. Laurent, and last July with Canada's Prime Minister John George Diefenbaker-he flew southwest to Acapulco to confer with Mexico's new President Adolfo Lopez Mateos (TIME, Dec. 8) on neighbors' problems ranging from dam building on the Rio Grande to lead and zinc markets. Result: cheers and carnations strewn in Acapulco's streets for the two Presidents, marked enhancement of U.S. good-neighbor relations...
...Willy Brandt, 45. bounded down the steps of the plane from Ottawa last weekend before Washington's photographers could get their cameras aimed. Brandt and his pretty, blonde wife were met by State Department Berlin Expert Eleanor Lansing Dulles, whose brother John Foster had just flown off to confer with German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer about Brandt's Russia-menaced city. Said Brandt: "I will tell my friends in the U.S. about free Berlin . . . You can rely on the people of the city of Berlin, as the Berliners know they can rely on the people...