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...Variety of techniques is astonishingly wide. With great economy, Josef Scharl captures Einstein wonderfully (see cut), Ben Shahn gets the rough ruggedness of Hemingway, and Arthur Okamura the glowering violence of Toscanini...
...ignoring the 40th anniversary of the Chinese party in Peking. Pravda, which uses layout and column inch with Politburo precision, reported the Ulan Bator festivities in a big Page One spread, relegated the Peking fete to a small item on page 6. Polish Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka and Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz set off to pay an official visit to Ulan Bator, but have been told by Khrushchev to stop there, not to go on to neighboring China. Russia publicly embarrassed the Chinese by unilaterally announcing last week that China was $300 million in debt to Moscow, as if to emphasize...
...time last week in the small Jerusalem courtroom, it was Jew v. Jew. Stately Baron Pinhas von Freudiger (his grandfather had been ennobled by Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Josef), who was formerly a prominent Jewish leader in Budapest, took the witness stand. As he emotionally described his dealings with Adolf Eichmann in an effort to save the lives of Hungary's 1,000,000 Jews, a squat, burly man in a golfer's cap leaped to his feet screaming "Hypocrite! You duped us so you could save yourselves and your families! Our families were killed. You have...
...project's prize treasure is 400 boxes containing 1,000,000 quotations from ancient parchments, bequeathed to the monastery in 1927 by Father Josef Denk, curate of a sleepy parish near Munich, who had spent most of his life in the reading room of the Bavarian State Library. Beuron's whole task probably cannot be completed before 2050. So far the institute has published 26 installments, covering if volumes of Vetus Latina's 35 books. By publishing the original Greek, the various early Latin translations, the St. Jerome Vulgate and thousands of footnotes, the work spreads...
...Catholic voters to vote as they pleased within the narrow choices offered them. Though no real opposition party is allowed, voters are permitted to pick from a slate of state-approved candidates, most of whom must be Communist. In Cracow, a Catholic candidate won more votes than Communist Premier Josef Cyrankiewicz, who was on the same list, and in Wroclaw, a Catholic got more support than Gomulka's Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki...