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...Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, archbishop of Lyon. Wrote the cardinal in his religious weekly: "The lowly and licentious film entitled Un Caprice de Caroline Chérie . . . is a scandalous display of vice." On church doors throughout France Caroline Chérie got a five rating on the Index of forbidden films: to be seen neither by adults nor children. Said Martine: "I'm flabbergasted! And what do they think about Mary Magdalene?" Author Cecil Saint-Laurent accused the church of yielding to Anglo-Saxon standards of prudery. But the film was passed by the French censorship, and with Cardinal...
...When he was sentenced to serve four years at hard labor, he refused to resign as mayor and announced that he would keep right on running the city from his cell. But by this time nobody was listening. When he entered gloomy old Dedham jail last week, he was forbidden to have more than one visitor a week, denied permission to use a telephone, to see aides or sign city papers. The city council president was authorized to act as mayor in his stead. Having accomplished the all-but-impossible trick of exiling himself while in office, defiant Mayor Peirce...
...Moran, executive secretary of the S.C.C.A. and a veteran of France's famed Le Mans 24-hour race, spoke up for the disgruntled drivers. "It's the European view," said Moran, "that these accidents will happen occasionally. But at Le Mans, the spectators never trespass in a forbidden or dangerous area...
...thirds of his class in order to participate in athletics. This means he must have an average some-what better than 70--and 70 is considered a "distinction" grade at New Haven. Under this arrangement, a scholarship-holder with "distinction" marks in all his courses may still be forbidden to participate in sports, while a non-scholarship holder with less than "distinction" (but still passing) grades can continue to play. In certain instances undergraduates are actually giving up scholarships in order to engage in Yale athletics, thus imposing an unnecessary and difficult financial burden on their parents...
Back in New York two days later, Oatis was greeted at the airport by his wife and more than 200 newsmen. Meanwhile the State Department, which had cut off all trade with Czechoslovakia, banned tourist travel and forbidden Czech planes to fly over the U.S. zone of Germany, made it clear that no "deal" had been made with the Czechs to get Oatis freed...