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...Riviera. There, at the beginning of a sun-soaked Italian summer, she meets the aging principessa and the principessa's current lover, Arcangelo, though Celia is too innocent to recognize him as such. She is quicker to sense the unsettling effects of the Italians upon her tidy and hitherto strait-laced life. She tries to tell the children's nanny about it: "They flourish somehow, they don't mind so much about . . . about what we mind, they're not so niggly -. . That's how I feel: niggly." Soon, Celia is feeling so far from niggly...
...Such a church," said the Rev. Hugh Ross Williamson, an Annunciationist leader and playwright, "cannot be called a Christian church in any hitherto definable sense of the term . . . After today, it will be impossible to be certain that any ordination in the Church of England is valid. This is not just another crisis. It is a unique happening which is bound to have historical consequences...
...remarks that there can be no real peace in the world until the satellite nations are freed,* stranger still. Ike's comment, when he was asked about Bulganin, that it is a "puzzle . . . who is, or what is the dominating influence" in the Soviet government. Such thoughts have hitherto been considered too dangerous for Pravda's readers. One explanation: the Russian people also need reminding that Bulganin, for all the attention he will have at Geneva, is not the boss, and only speaks for The Committee...
...Mountaineering) has filled Tenzing's book with plenty of good writing, cliff hangs, avalanches, frostbite and windy nights on bald mountains. The result is polished, often deeply moving, but rather on the twicetold side. Tenzing, however, has saved for this book one bit of information he has never hitherto confirmed: "Hillary stepped on top first...
...Rockefeller Foundation and TIME Inc., Columbia University announced that a team of scholars from its faculty would now go to work on the first major edition of the papers of Alexander Hamilton since that compiled by the late Henry Cabot Lodge and reprinted in 1904. Among the hitherto unpublished items the Columbia volumes will contain: documents written while Hamilton was Washington's aide-de-camp, his Cabinet papers, reports to Congress, and his draft of Washington's Farewell Address...