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...this book, Ivinskaya's fate was well deserved. As Krotkov tells it, she was responsible for Doctor Zhivago's publication abroad, thus causing all the troubles. Pasternak is said to have repudiated her when she supposedly pocketed some of the novel's foreign royalties. That alle gation corresponds to the line taken by the Soviets in 1960 to justify the eight-year sentence meted out to Ivinskaya, who was convicted on a trumped-up charge of speculating in foreign currency...
...Supreme Court goes back to school almost every term. Year after year the court is asked to rule on aspects of public education, from major issues like segre gation to less explosive problems like the limits of student "free speech" and the status of nontenured teachers. Last week the court put two more entries in its school rule book...
...90th Congress is concerned, time's a-wastin'. With elections only a month off, its members are desperate to get their campaigns under way. Last week, for example, the 38 members of California's House dele gation decided to adjourn, come what may, at the end of this week. One of them explained simply: "We've got to get home...
Antoine Pinay has shaved off the little mustache and discarded the round hat with upturned brim that were once his trademarks as Premier of the Fourth Republic. But his popularity with Frenchmen remains second only to that of De Gaulle himself. Last week a dele gation representing three center parties of France presented itself in Pinay's handsome apartment overlooking the Bois de Boulogne in Paris to put a question. Would Pinay stand for President in the French elections next...
...talk about Christian unity becomes possible. The fourth conference, carrying on the dialogue of the third one, at Lund in 1952, proved more ecumenical, and less Protestant-dominated, than ever. Among representatives of 138 of the World Council's 201 mem ber churches was the first full dele gation of Orthodox theologians: there were 51 of them, including eight from Russia. Also present were 20 Roman Catholic observers-including five appointed by the Vatican-and Montreal's Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger delivered one of the major addresses...