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Christmas comes to Australia in a month when vacationers are thinking of holidays on the beach, to Normway and Sweden during their long, fozen night and to us when soft snows seem to form a halo around every light and candle flame in the the window. For the Russian Orthodox Church, Christmas falls 13 days later than ours...
...donkey (left side of picture), not famous for brains, with the sanctimonious halo above his head, his squint eyes looking down his nose, the self-satisfied smirk, really cinches it with that right fore hoof "kicking...
...halo. That was supposed to be a small but ominous cloud...
David Ben-Gurion, who carries beneath the wild halo of his white hair great visions but little patience for political compromise, has ruled the country with difficulty. To satisfy the Jewish Orthodox bloc in his cabinet he accepted the virtual prohibition of civil marriages, the import of pork, the use of public buses on the Sabbath. But when the Orthodox faction demanded that education in the immigrant camps be turned over to the rabbis, Socialist "B.G." exploded, sought new elections. He hoped to win an absolute majority for his Mapai party (ideological twin of the British Labor party) which held...
Bridges had simply provided the Communists with another martyr's halo, they said. "A Bridges singled out and jailed by arbitrary judicial action while he is prosecuting with diligence his good-faith appeal poses to our minds a more serious menace to the nation and our Constitution than does a Bridges [free] on bail...