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...more than 30 other prelates, drew up a petition calling for a church court to try Pike for heresy. The move was forestalled only when the House of Bishops agreed to approve a statement of principles that denounced Pike's theologizing as "offensive" and "irresponsible"-terms as harsh as any church court might have used...
Blake's conversion to Communism ostensibly occurred while he was a prisoner in North Korea from 1950 to 1953. As British vice consul in Seoul, he rated harsh treatment from his Communist captors, as well as a few sporadic attempts at brainwashing. A fellow prisoner, British Journalist Philip Deane, finds the conversion theory "ludicrous." Says he: "Blake was never kept away from his fellow prisoners for more than a few hours"-too short a time for effective brainwashing. As to a philosophical decision by Blake that Communism was morally superior, Deane observes: "All we knew at the hands...
Such caveats may be too harsh. Just how tremendous his lifetime's accomplishment has been will be best seen next month when Paris' Grand Palais and Petit Palais, in a birthday salute, opens the largest Picasso show ever assembled, with 800 works, including 100 from Picasso's own collection. Will he attend? "Go to Paris?" says Picasso. "But I go there only to see my dentist. At the moment, I haven't a toothache...
There were many exceptional descriptions and analysis of the Dartmouth game, but the Big Green Football News had the winner: "It was Judgement Day for the Indians in the stronghold of the Commonwealth, and the sentences passed on the Big Green were harsh. Running ten straight in Ivy League action, Coach Bob Blackman's Tribe was charged with disturbing the peace Saturday and lost to Harvard, 19-14. The judging was difficult of course in the courthouse of nearly 40,000 and the decisions, whether snap or researched, must stand. Some villagers were restless...
...into Mexico, Dykes Simmons, 38, has had good reason to reflect upon the problems of American suspects abroad. For seven years, while he has sweated out a death sentence in his sun-baked prison cell in Monterrey, the Fort Worth crane operator, now a convicted murderer, has pondered the harsh fact that whatever Mexican law says, an American defendant may well have to prove his innocence in the face of assumed guilt. In a U.S. court, a prosecutor would have had to prove Simmons' guilt beyond a reasonable doubt-a difficult, if not impossible, task...