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Last week the archbishop answered some of his loudest parishioners with firm letters of "paternal admonition." The letter to Mrs. Gaillot, mother of two children in Catholic schools, was a "fatherly warning'' of automatic excommunication if she continued promoting "flagrant disobedience to the decision to open our schools to ALL." Said she nervously: "If they can show me from the Bible where I am wrong, I will get down on my knees before Archbishop Rummel and beg his forgiveness." Postponing that experience, the archbishop spent two hours conferring with State Lawmaker Buras, recipient of another Rummel letter...
...number of children of federal workers. At stake is more than $250 million in federal aid now granted to schools attended by 1.6 million children, many in the South. The mere threat of a test case brought anguished cries from South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond, who labeled it "a flagrant act of economic blackmail...
...open and flagrant contradiction between the socio-economic teachings of Robert Welch and that of Leo XIII and his successors." At a Los Angeles rally, meanwhile, the Birchers unveiled Eddie Rose, a 23-year-old college student who had just won the society's $1,000 first prize for the best essay on: "Grounds for the Impeachment of Earl Warren." Eddie flunked out of the U.C.L.A. engineering school, attended Los Angeles City College for a year, is now taking extension courses in engineering at U.C.L.A. Off campus, he works as a weight analyst at Douglas Aircraft's Santa...
...salaries or wages. Paris has sent in police officials specially chosen for their reliability and toughness, but they have achieved little against the S.A.O. Said one: "We get a feeling we are working in a vacuum. Our orders are misinterpreted at lower echelons, and security leaks are flagrant...
...dealing last week could not give Senator Puyat the 60% of the convention vote needed for nomination. On the first ballot, Puyat got 487 votes to 375 for Finance Minister Dominador Aytona, 43, the energetic reformer whom Garcia brought into his administration to crack down on the more flagrant examples of corruption. Two hundred twenty-five votes went to Senator Quintin Paredes, a wealthy tobacco grower from northern Luzon...