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...alternately dazzled them with his erudition and convulsed them with his histrionics. He enjoyed doing impersonations of celebrities uttering incongruities (Franklin Roosevelt talking about the state of the church, Katharine Hepburn broadcasting a prizefight). All of Boston College's dismissed teachers taught at the center. Months before last fortnight's uproar, one of them, Dr. Fakhri Maluf, wrote an article for the center's quarterly publication, From the Housetops, which has been belaboring Jesuit "liberalism...
Traicho Kostov, arrested last fortnight for "spying" and Titoist deviations (TIME, April 18). He had been subjected to a fate possibly worse than liquidation. Stripped of all his power, he was appointed director of Bulgaria's National Library...
...shops; others had shifted to newspapers in nearby cities.) The publishers were under no pressure to settle either. They had so well ironed out the mechanical wrinkles of printing by Vari-Typers and similar machines that the Chicago Daily News had reached an alltime circulation high (505.277). Fortnight ago, the Trib had turned out the fattest daily paper (84 pages) in its history. But if newspapers looked much the same as in pre-strike days, they did not read the same. By & large, stories were duller, staler and skimpier...
...Masters a fortnight ago, looking younger than he did three years ago, baby-faced Byron said cheerfully: "I just came over to have some fun." But he didn't really mean it. Last week, at 37, the man once famed for his iceberg nerves and his carefully stylized mechanical swing announced that he was back for some tournaments on the summer tour...
...shiny new United Nations machine came off the San Francisco assembly line four years ago this month. In the time since, United States-Soviet relations have deteriorated consistently; the signing of the Atlantic Pact a fortnight ago formalized the split between the two countries. But much more serious than this diplomatic hardening of the arteries has been the growth of anti-Russian feeling in this country. A significant part of the American press has parlayed domestic news into direct propaganda with viciousness and determination...