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...Louis Post-Dispatch and the New York Post, which gave them happy credence and currency, it was a sinister conspiracy, nourished on Chinese Nationalist gold and spouting un-Americanisms. It was so sinister, in fact, that the Communist Party, in its secret directive of 1949, ordered the faithful to hammer away at the propagandistic phrase...
Latest Czech Communist invention: "concentration monasteries." Last week Frankfurt's Neue Zeitung reported that obstinate priests who refuse to bow before the hammer & sickle are being "re-educated" in eight government-run camps. Special police are detailed to guard the priests. Discipline is harsh and living conditions bad. The priests are allowed to celebrate Mass, however. Most prominent prisoner: Archbishop Josef Beran of Prague, now confined to the high-walled, isolated Nova Rise monastery, 20 miles from the Austrian border...
...Twitchell, who placed fifth and sixth in the 120-yard low hurdles; Dick Barwise, involved in a five-way tie for second in the high jump at six feet; Ed Gruztener, who nipped Cornell's Jim Lingel for second place in the 440; Bob Curran, fifth in the hammer throw; Fred Ravreby, fifth in the javelin throw; Bob Ray, third in the shot put; the quarter mile relay team, which placed fifth; Bob Mello, one of four men who tied for third in the pole vault; and the mile relay team, which placed third behind Cornell and Navy...
Conant summed up his views, saying "Europe must be defended. Europe can not be adequately defended except by united action; this united action must be applicable not only in Europe but in the east; France, Great Britain, and the United States must hammer out a 20th century policy which will yield wise political, economics and military decisions as to every critical area on the entire globe...
...South Bank, northwest of dingy Waterloo Station. There, where bombed-out slums once sprawled, they could goggle at the vast "Dome of Discovery," with its 74-inch-lens telescope, at the "Telekinema" with its three-dimensional sound pictures, and the "Eccentrics' Corner" featuring, among other achievements, a hammer guaranteed not to hit the user's thumb. Still in store for visitors this summer: a series of industrial exhibitions, midways, art exhibits, concerts, carnivals and conventions in more than 1,700 British cities and towns...