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Lawyer Peter Campbell Brown, 45, chairman in 1952-53 of the federal Subversive Activities Control Board. Last summer the Brown committee drafted a report blasting the Supreme Court's 1956-58 security decisions so harshly that Chief Justice Warren resigned from the A.B.A. (his resignation became final a fortnight ago). A.B.A. President Ross Malone stressed last week that in adopting the Brown committee's recommendations, the House of Delegates was not okaying its critical report...
...archenemy, Planter Louis Dejoie, the defeated candidate in Haiti's mulatto-v.-black presidential elections in 1957. Dejoie confers daily with top rebel leaders, runs a program of incitement to revolt three nights a.week in French and Creole over Radio Progreso, a 5,000-watt Havana station. Fortnight ago, Dejoie announced a unity pact with rabble-rousing ex-President Daniel Fignole, a New York-based exile, and Dr. Clement Jumelle, who is hiding out in Haiti...
...last week announced that he had invited Mexico's President Adolfo Lopez Mateos, Ike's host a fortnight ago, to visit the U.S. this spring...
Agaganian's monthlong, 11,000-mile Far Eastern tour began fortnight ago in Saigon, where he presided over South Viet Nam's first Marian Congress. South Viet Nam's 1,150,000 Catholics, including President Ngo Dinh Diem, are a small minority (total population: 15 million), but they are the best-organized religious group in a nation of strife-torn Buddhists. As he moved coolly through blazing heat, the 63-year-old cardinal in scarlet robes and wide-brimmed shepherd's hat was a symbol eyed by the entire nation. Thousands of non-Catholics lined...
...Delhi fortnight ago, four couples demonstrated a simple solution: Delhi's first cut-rate mass wedding, with no fuss and no dowries at all. Members of the Jain sect, India's fifth biggest religious group (biggest: Hindus), the couples arrived quietly at a Jain temple. Only ostentation: the four brides' traditionally exquisite silk saris, and the bridegrooms' jeweled turbans. Stripped of party gaud, the go-minute wedding ceremony took on added religious significance, from the sound of the Sanskrit scripture chanted by four pandits to the odor of marigold garlands and the glow of incense...