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...warming relationship between Rome and Moscow has lately been a sort of Father Alphonse-Comrade Gaston act. Last September the Vatican invited Russian Orthodox observers to the Ecumenical Council. Last month the Soviet Union released Ukrainian Archbishop Josyf Slipyi from his long years in prison. And last week Editor Adzhubei, clearly working under orders from on high, showed up in Rome for what was billed as a "lecture tour...
...George, a retired medical professor who recently earned a $3,000 fee from Alabama with a study "proving"' the biological inferiority of Negroes. It is rightly proud of such alumni as President James K. Polk (1818), and wryly proud of such graduates as the late swindler Gaston B. Means ('22), described by Historian Archibald Henderson as "the most able, ingenious and imaginative criminal...
...Communist Party's No. 2 man. Waldeck Rochet, wearing metal-rimmed spectacles and a funereal suit, warned of the evils of Gaullist capitalism and of the military alliance with "vengeful" West Germany. Senate President Gaston Monnerville, a Negro born in French Guiana, spoke in the name of the Radical Party, argued legalistically that De Gaulle had violated the constitution and that his resignation threat, if he did not get an impressive yes vote, changed the referendum from a "consultation to a summons...
...dissolution by the all-powerful chief executive. And though De Gaulle has described a strong presidency as an eventual "influence of continuity," his blueprint contains no provision for vice-presidential succession in an emergency. If De Gaulle were to die tomorrow, the office would go to Senate President Gaston Monnerville, an undistinguished politician from French Guiana...
...obviously didn't. In the third screen version of the grisly Gothic novel by Gaston Leroux, the phantom as interpreted by Herbert Lorn looks about as dangerous as dear old granddad all dressed up for Hallowe'en in a mouthless lavender mask that could probably be duplicated for a dime at any corner candy store. And why does he wear a mask? Because his face is so horrible that if people saw it they would run out of the theater hollering eeeeeeeeeek? No. Because, it turns out, he still looks like Liberace...