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...Russia "for his health"), languished in prison, charged with threatening the internal security of the state, but able to see a liberal number of visitors. In the presence of his lawyers, he was questioned by a magistrate for 3½ hours about his part in the Ridgway riots a fortnight ago. They wanted to know what he was doing in a car equipped with short-wave radio, pistol and blackjack...
...religious leaders came to praise the school's work. Among them: Davenport's Roman Catholic Bishop Ralph L. Hayes, Des Moines' Methodist Bishop Charles W. Brashares, Des Moines' Rabbi Eugene Mannheimer. They just missed a chance to watch a typical example of cooperation in action. Fortnight before, a young Southern Baptist minister, the Rev. Kenneth P. Berg, had passed his oral examination for his Ph. D. in religion. His examiners, who learnedly discussed his thesis on Calvinism : Dr. M. Willard Lampe (Presbyterian), the School of Religion's director, Dr. Marcus Bach (Evangelical and Reformed), Father...
...never thought of itself as big oil country until last January, when Standard of New Jersey's subsidiary, Humble Oil, brought in the state's first gusher on the cotton farm of Allen Moye. In short order, two other producing wells were brought in nearby. Last fortnight the fourth came in on L. G. Crosby's farm. Last week land could not be bought in the area for any price. There is talk that the new pool may reach far into Georgia on the east and Florida on the south, and wildcatters are setting up new rigs...
Among Paris' 14 French-language dailies, one paper-Le Monde (circ. 150,000) -stands head & shoulders above the rest. Though "neutralist" in politics, its devotion to responsibility in journalism is such that it is often called the New York Times of Paris. A fortnight ago Le Monde readers got a shock. Many of them, who fear that the U.S. will leave France holding the sack if the Russians ever invade Western Europe, found a piece of "news" that confirmed their worst suspicions...
Last week, after a lapse of two centuries, the ritual of individual confession was again an official practice among German Lutherans. In Flensburg a fortnight ago, the General Synod of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church* restored the same private confession which Martin Luther, in his day, had emphasized as an important means to salvation. It had been virtually abandoned since the 18th century, when most Lutheran churches, influenced by rationalist philosophy, discarded private confession as unnecessary...