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Last week the 16-year controversy was finally ended. The old archbishop had gone into virtual retirement; Mayor Kubitschek was President of Brazil; and Architect Niemeyer was an ex-Communist. After a long talk with Brazil's national-monuments chief, Auxiliary Archbishop Dom João Rezende Costa agreed that the church has "great artistic significance and a spiritual atmosphere." Refurbished by Architect Niemeyer, the old chapel was at last consecrated by Archbishop Rezende Costa before an enthusiastic crowd of citizens. Said the archbishop: "Now we can feel the wonderful art created here in homage to the Creator." Said...
...Ex-Communist Whittaker (Witness) Chambers, 57, rusty now in a language he could read and write passably in his literary youth, signed up for an early-dawning TV course in elementary Russian offered by Washington's George Washington University...
Israel Lazar, also known as William Lawrence, 54, sometime manager of the now extinct Daily Worker, was identified by ex-Communist Witness John Lautner as head of a Communist Party "cultural division" that directed and coordinated the work of secret Reds in the entertainment industry. Lazar refused to confirm or deny anything...
...Paul told the Corinthians that "the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance." In latter days Moses has been psychoanalyzed by Freud (Moses and Monotheism) and has taken his turn at the treaDeMille (The Ten Commandments). Now. ex-Communist Howard Fast, veteran of 14 mostly ideological novels (Citizen Tom Paine, Freedom Road), has turned out what looks like Volume I of a Mosaic saga with overtones of both Freud and DeMille...
Twentieth Century: "Our truth was a half-truth, our fight a battle in the mist . . . and those who suffered and died in it were pawns in a complicated game between two totalitarian pretenders for world domination." So wrote ex-Communist Novelist Arthur (Darkness at Noon) Koestler after he came home from Spain's civil war. As CBS's corrosive documentary, War in Spain, made grimly clear, the pretenders were Hitler and Mussolini on one side and Stalin on the other, and the game that divided a nation against itself was a grisly dress rehearsal for the greatest...