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...Congress, how ever, was not convinced. In 1962 it passed a law requiring the Post Office to hold all incoming "Communist politi cal propaganda" for 20 days, then de stroy it unless the addressee returned a card saying he wanted it. Respectable critics began to note an obvious dan ger: Post Office lists of "approved" addressees might well result in the hounding of innocent individuals, such as scholars and journalists...
...been its founder, the late Solomon R. Guggenheim. Back in 1928 he had seen his first nonobjective painting and declared, "By Jove, this is beautiful!" Under the guidance of his good friend, Nonobjective Painter Hilla Rebay, he built a lasting collection around paintings by Braque, Picasso, Léger, Klee, Delaunay and Kandinsky. But to represent pre-1900 painting, there were barely half a dozen oils. The Thannhauser gift now adds 21 works predating the 20th century, including six Van Goghs, one Degas, and three more Cézannes. Among newcomers to the museum are Daumier, Manet and Pissarro...
Bushy-browed Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who died of pneumonia at 63 in Bucharest last week, was, with East Ger many's Walter Ulbricht, the last of the unregenerate Stalinists who rose to power on the Red Army wave that swept over Eastern Europe in 1944. None theless, in his last years, he earned some popularity by astute maneuvering that won Rumania a measure of independence from Soviet domination...
...should affirm," said Paul-Emile Cardinal Léger of Montreal, "that the intimate union of the marriage partners finds its end in love as well as procreation. May this Council clearly proclaim the two ends as equally good and holy." Belgium's Leo Josef Cardinal Suenens said that the church has for too long based its marital teaching on the Biblical injunction "Increase and multiply," while ignoring an equally important Scriptural imperative: "They shall be two in one flesh." Suenens proposed that the Council commission responsible for Schema 13 ("The Church in the Modern World") should work with...
...grandson of an immigrant Ger man, the greying, nattily dressed Leuenroth, 57, has become such a master of his market that competing corporations willingly share his services-a practice universally avoided in the U.S. Standard's 62 clients include two appliance companies, two steel mills and three drug companies, in addition to such prestigious firms as Shell, Pirelli and Helena Rubinstein. Last week Standard went to work on two more major plums: a government campaign to popularize a new anti-inflation, salary-withholding bond, and another to promote the National Housing Bank, recently organized to finance lower-class housing...