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...similar foray against the Law School last year resulted in a scoreless...
...brief foray into Quebec, Tory Chieftain Diefenbaker could play no such homey role. Reading speeches in schoolboy French, Diefenbaker was unable to shake Quebec's traditional suspicion of the Conservatives, whose strength is based in the English culture of neighboring Ontario. But across the provinces, Diefenbaker has pumped new spirit into a party that last won a Canadian federal election in 1930. Elected Tory leader only 5½ months ago, Diefenbaker has kept himself on a handshaking, speechmaking grind from morning until well after midnight through six weeks of the campaign...
...Perezcaballero somehow enables the dying Kansdorf to find God in a mystical crucifixion reverie while himself regaining his lost calling. Loosely plotted but tautly written, the book relies finally on devices that are more pious than imaginative. By protesting his faith too much, Novelist Stolpe has made his fictional foray into original sin less gripping than that of, say, Albert Camus, a professed atheist, whose The Fall (TIME, Feb. 18) leaves the most complacently irreligious reader under a conviction of sin and the dread need to examine the state of his own soul...
...rare foray beyond the Vatican's walls, Pope Pius XII journeyed a short distance in Rome, appeared at the sooth anniversary celebration of the Collegio Capranica, a small but distinguished seminary (world's oldest) where he was a young student 62 years ago. His Holiness kissed the feet of an old familiar crucifix, inspected the tiny room he once occupied, presented the college with a pearl-encrust ed chalice as a quincentennial present...
Surprisingly enough, there are very few large-scale gang wars in Cambridge. A few years ago, about 200 Cambridge youths invaded Belmont to redress an alleged grievance, but nothing came of that foray. On the whole, the fighting has been confined to chance encounters between a few members of rival gangs. The odds are seldom even, and if one gang is able to obtain an eight to one numerical advantage, more power...