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...could, she persuaded Diamantina's Roman Catholic seminary to take him as a pupil at a reduced tuition fee. On his first day of school, Juscelino, then eleven, put on his first pair of shoes, bought with money earned as a grocer's errand boy. Recalls one of his seminary teachers: "I never saw such a remarkable memory in a child. He could recite an entire page by heart after reading it once. He was not what I would call deep, but he certainly was bright...
...biggest complaint comes from union leaders, who fear that management will use religion as a weapon against labor and to talk down justified complaints and demands. Said the Protestant Christian Century: "The first danger in a company-paid chaplaincy is that the chaplain may become a company-paid errand boy for bolstering company policy, pacifying complaints, playing on religious predilections to keep workers happy. The church should not condone such prostitution of its ministry...
...February Revolution and the world war that was raging to the west, Moscow in the late winter of 1917 was not a very excited city. Michael Karpovich, a young army officer attached to a government bureau, felt no particular emotion as he walked down the street on a routine errand. When he happened to meet an old friend whom he had not seen for several years, Karpovich was more pleased than surprised. He would have been shocked indeed, had someone told him that this chance meeting would remove him from Russia for the rest of his life, and that...
Argentina's President Juan Peron sent his military aide to the Commerce Ministry on an important errand one afternoon last week. After a ten-minute, closed-door talk with the brass-braided errand boy, young (30), earnest Commerce Minister Antonio Cafiero called his top assistants together and said goodbye. A practicing Roman Catholic and a Catholic Action leader in his student days, Cafiero had just become the first minister to lose his job as a result of the "war that Perón has been waging against the Catholic Church (TiME, April 18 et ante). On another front...
...drama of character; Clouzot is much more interested in ideas than in people. At the social level his idea is simple: hate America. His four figures are intended to signify Italy, Germany, and two aspects of the French soul, all sent on a fool's errand to pull U.S. chestnuts out of the fire. The propaganda is mostly vicious and irresponsible, occasionally clearsighted, always clever. U.S. audiences, however, will not be subjected to most of it. Most of the hate-America stuff was hacked out of the original, which ran close to three hours...