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...threat of war over Cuba inspired most religious leaders to make evenhanded appeals for peace to both top powers; Pope John XXIII supplicated "all rulers not to remain deaf to the cry of mankind." But the statement issued by the World Council of Churches from Geneva was more specifically critical of the U.S., expressing "grave concern and regret" over the decision to quarantine Cuba. One of the signers was Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, chairman of the council's central committee and president of the Lutheran Church in America...
...whole meets its found er's injunction to show a profit, it frequently falls short of what he would have liked it to be. Its canned editorials not only relieve the editors of reaching their own conclusions about national and inter national affairs, but also often fall on deaf or mystified ears. "They write editorials about national stories that haven't even appeared in the paper," laments a housewife from Albuquerque, where the chain operates the evening Tribune. Because many Scripps-Howard papers use only the chain-owned U.P.I, wire service, they are often scooped by other newspapers...
Shortly after war's end, he met Visconti and Fellini at Rome's University Theater Center, learned his craft on its stage in everything from Attic tragedy to Arsenic and Old Lace. His deaf mother and blind father would come to the theater, the one to see, the other to hear him. He made 50 films before La Dolce Vita, co-starring in several early ones with another beginner-Sophia Loren. He has high regard for her and she for him. She gets about $1,000,000 for a picture, and he gets around...
...join the vital new Europe, even if it meant the end of a relationship that has long ceased to be that of mother and daughters save in sentiment. If the Commonwealth does not agree, said the Economist last week, "Mother would then be well advised to switch off her deaf-aid and go on regardless with the course of action that is necessary...
...Business. One of the most light-hearted round buildings in the U.S. is a bank: the little Wells Fargo branch gracing the plaza of the glassy, curtain-walled Crown Zellerbach Building in San Francisco. Architect Peter Kitchell. design head of the bank for Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, turns a deaf ear to critics who grump that the bank, with its fluted roof and carousel airiness, is wrong for its setting at the foot of the zooming Zellerbach tower. Says he: "The essence of our bank is its simple shape. The Wells Fargo people love it; the first manager there treated...