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...strain, the 80-year-old statesman made a slight concession to the enemy last June-he "temporarily" yielded his leadership of South Africa's United Party to his deputy, Jacobus Gideon Nel Strauss. But through his son, he announced that he planned soon "once more to enter the fray with renewed vigor." Last week, against his doctors' advice, Smuts left his tin-walled farmhouse to do just that...
...would, therefore, suggest that the whole thing be let drop. Those who can spare a minute from the heat of the fray will notice that very, very few beanies are being sported at Radcliffe. Thus, our status is not fundamentally changed: we still manage to please some of the people all of the time. And the columns of the CRIMSON will cease to resemble a Louella Parsons forum on The Moral Cupidity of lugrid Bergman, and perhaps return to subjects worthier of its aspiring journalists and ostensibly-intelligent contributors. Please, please, let us enjoy one of women's oldest...
France's own Communists leaped enthusiastically into the ensuing fray, seizing the occasion to sling more mud at Bidault. Accusations, denials and counteraccusations were scattered like shrapnel. After three hours of stormy debate the Assembly voted to form a committee to investigate the whole affair...
...This World. For his half-hour programs of folk song and plain song, interspersed with religious talks, Argentina's 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...
Back to the Old Trade. As a novice in his order, Fray José Francisco de Guadalupe had been startled to learn the extent of the chronic shortage of clergy in Roman Catholic South America; he found that on the continent there were areas half as large as Spain without a priest, some 40,000 parishes without pastors. His decision was to go back as a priest to the crowds and microphones he had given up. Since then he has carried his recruiting and fund-raising campaign into Venezuela, Chile, Colombia and Argentina...