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...Broadcasting and Film Commission, totted up the 1956 figures on films with Catholic and Protestant themes and happily announced the result: four to one in favor of the Protestants. Lutheran Heimrich gave most of the credit for better Protestant billing to the Council of Churches' campaign to inform producers about Protestantism. One lost battle of the campaign: the council appealed to ministers for film scripts, got several and rejected them all. The flaw: "They would never get the seal of approval of the Production Code Administration, for in part (e.g., by portraying pastors bossed around by church-board members...
House interviews for freshmen begin this afternoon. House representatives will hold "consultation hours" each weekday until March 28 for applicants. Freshmen are urged to have their interviews early and to inform themselves, through the interviews, of what each House has to offer, according to Dean Watson...
...General Assembly's Political Committee, France showed that it was doing its best to link the vocation and the friendship. In contrast to 1955, when France boycotted a discussion of Algeria, its representative (largely to win U.S. backing) not only agreed to discuss the rebellion but even to inform the U.N. of France's plans for restoring peace in Algeria. In defensive tones, Christian Pineau outlined Mollet's Algerian program: first an unconditional ceasefire, next free elections and finally negotiation of Algeria's future status with whoever won the elections...
...group of freshmen have just formed a Harvard Freedom Council, to inform students of activity in the Soviet satellites, it was learned recently. As its first major project the group hopes to stage a Hungarian drive similar to the one completed by Kirkland House last week...
Cuba's troublesome wave of sporadic bombings, sabotage and bloodshed spread into its third month last week. Strongman Fulgencio Batista was still undisputed boss of the island, but a few more months of terrorism might well bring the hour when other army officers would gravely inform him that-"for the good of Cuba" -he must step down. To head off that hour. Batista acted. He broadened the existing partial suspension of civil rights to cover the entire island, extended the decree another 45 days. Then he sent censors to newspapers, cable offices, radio and television stations to place...