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...more than a year the Communist government has been hacking away at the Roman Catholic Church in predominantly (75%) Catholic Czechoslovakia. Last week ten members of the Jesuit, Dominican, Franciscan and other orders were sentenced-on Spy Wednesday*- on the usual Red charges of espionage and conspiracy. Their sentences ranged from two years to life in prison...
Ulate was also a citizens' President at his palace desk. Proclaiming that "a little Franciscan poverty" was necessary if the 1950 budget were to balance, he slashed his own salary 23% (to $570 a month), fired a block of office workers, reduced the total number of cars available for government officials to 15. His explanation for abolishing the army was short and to the point. "So long as the government has the confidence of the people," he said, "it has an army...
...Radio Belgrano paid Fray José a record 60,000 pesos ($6,750) for eight broadcasts. But the money no longer went for the upkeep of lavish homes in California and Mexico. Fray José, bound by a vow of poverty, had turned it over to a Franciscan seminary now abuilding in Arequipa, Peru...
...shortly after his mother's death, José gave his fortune to charity and went off to Peru to enter the Franciscan order. Six years later, after he was ordained a priest in Lima's San Francisco Monastery, police were called out to control the admirers surging into the church to hear him sing his first Mass...
...time after the second round of his ten-round exhibition fight with Pat Valentino in Chicago last week, Joe Louis could have knocked his stumbling opponent out. Instead, the retired champion nursed the mop-haired San Franciscan along with blood-drawing lefts until the clock showed 2:45 of the eighth round. Then, as if on cue, he hit Valentino with a vicious left hook and a chopping right, neatly dropping his victim in front of the ringside seat of new N.B.A. Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles. Murmured Charles, who had finished Valentino in eight rounds himself last October, "Man, that...