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...church, for instance, the collection has risen from an average of 300 forints to 1,080. People who used to go to far-off churches so as not to be recognized now go to church openly." And among Hungary's 6,000,000 Roman Catholics, 1,954,000 Reformed and 500,000 Lutherans, the Communists have brought a new sense of brotherhood. "All the churches in my country," said Bishop Ordass. "are closer together now than they have been in 400 years of history...
...Chief Justice found that Zik, in his function as Premier, had transferred public money, equivalent to one quarter of the 1955-56 revenue of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, to his own bank, thereby saving it from collapse. "Guilty of misconduct as a minister," declared the tribunal. Advised the far-off London Times: "He should resign and, in so far as it is possible, make restitution. He can then ask the people to give him a new mandate...
Half the globe away from the world's shooting wars, the vanguard of an international brigade of athletes invaded Australia. They had come, so they were told, to promote peace. But the repercussions of far-off gunfire were felt in Melbourne's Olympic village-and might just possibly wreck the 1956 games...
...these are only some of the foreign nationals who read TIME in far-off lands. More numerous are the native readers, who in each country, it turns out, are the same kind of people who read TIME in the U.S.-the college-educated, the leaders in business and all manner of community affairs. Accustomed to receiving their magazines on the same day as many U.S. readers, they are just as quick to let us know when they don't (the secretary ' of TIME-Reader Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. Shah of Iran, is on the phone within two hours...