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...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Curt Jurgens, Orson Welles and Sylvia Syms star in this drama about a man without a country, forever exiled to life aboard a Ferry to Hong Kong...
That is no doubt true. But there were other reasons for the committee's curt dismissal of the parietals proposal. First of all, it was far too extreme. The plan Stewart backed called for noon to midnight visiting hours every day except Saturday, when they would last until 1 a.m. That would mean more than doubling the present number of hours, and that was just too radical for the Masters. After all, the only change before December of the rules drawn up in 1953-54 was extending Saturday hours from 11 p.m. to midnight. And that...
...Ministers were sworn into office by Chrysostomos, the Primate of Greece, and one of the new government's first decrees was an order solemnly commanding Greece's young people to attend church. Last week the junta's reforming zeal turned on the church itself. With a curt de cree, the government dismissed the 86-year-old Chrysostomos and the twelve bishops of the Holy Synod, the church's highest governing body. In as the new Primate went Archimandrite leronymos Kotsonis, a professor of canon law who happens to be personal chaplain to King Constantine. The government...
...radio stations faded off the air. Then the armed forces station broke the silence to announce a curt and chilling bulletin: in the name of the King, the army had seized power. Tanks and armored personnel carriers stood at every intersection, five of them with pointed barrels taking up posts outside Parliament. Greece's borders were closed, and its communications with the outside world stopped. No planes could land or take off, and arriving ships were turned away from ports. Suddenly, a land of 8,550,000 people, roughly the size of the state of New York, found itself totally...
Taking Clemow's place at number seven is junior Curt Canning, who rowed at number five last year. A 6-3, 200-pounder from Utah, Canning is steady and works well with Gardiner...