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Died. The Right Rev. Angus Dun, 79, Episcopal Bishop of Washington, D.C., between 1944 and 1962 an outspoken liberal; of a stroke; in Washington. "I have learned that human existence is essentially tragic," said Bishop Dun, who as a child overcame a congenital defect that warped his limbs, only to lose a leg to polio later. "It is only the love of God that redeems the human tragedy." A strong supporter of the World Council of Churches, Dun was an ardent ecumenist...
...from warrior nobles who fought in the elite armies of Nadir Shah, the Persian adventurer who conquered Delhi in the 18th century. With his pukka sahib manner, Yahya seems strictly Sandhurst, though he learned his trade not in England but at the British-run Indian Military Academy at Dehra Dun. During World War II, he fought in the British Indian army in North Africa and Italy. After partition, like most of the subcontinent's best soldiers, he opted to become a Pakistani (India, the saying goes, got all the bureaucrats). He was an Ayub protege from the start...
...added" (T.V.A.), this was no great problem; when a Luxembourgeois who believed in cremation died, his family would simply have him taken across the French border to Strasbourg. But under T.V.A., French tax collectors consider cremation a taxable "service rendered to a private person." As a result, they now dun bereaved Luxembourgeois for 17% of the Strasbourg crematorium's fee-the "value added" to the deceased. On their way home with the ashes, the mourners get hit again, this time by Luxembourg officials who demand payment of another 8% tax for "work entrusted to a foreign company, with reimportation...
Several said that their refusal was based on doubts about Scanlan's financial situation, but Dun & Bradstreet says that the magazine's latest net worth is $497,976. Scanlan's Editor Sidney E. Zion says that the refusal is an inexcusable act of censorship by the printers. The magazine finally found a printer in Canada, which was understandably reluctant to encourage bombers. Montreal police seized some 100,000 copies on the technicality that the necessary permit had not been obtained. Last week, while Scanlan's lawyer Israel Schawartzberg was rounding up the necessary signatures, he died...
...They've got plenty of money, too," said Nat. "Just tell me the one you want and I'll have her checked with Dun and Bradstreet...