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Officially known as the Plummer Professorship of Christian Morals, the post has lain open for three years. During this time visiting preachers and an acting minister, the Rev. R. Jerrold Gibson, have filled the pulpit. It has been rumored that a new University preacher may be appointed by President Pusey sometime this spring...
...post has lain open since the middle of the summer, when Sterling M. Murrin resigned to return to teaching duties as a philosophy professor at the University of Utah. Murrin had left Utah to become commissioner in early...
...police politely invite the menace to leave town; he politely refuses. They harass him with sudden searches and unreasonable arrests; he gets a lawyer and they have to stop. They also have to stop guarding the hero's house when the vil lain's lawyer threatens to tell the taxpayers how their money is being spent. Next day the hero's watchdog is poisoned. The chief of police advises him to hire a private detective: "It's a terrible thing to say, but there's nothing more we can do." While the detective tails...
...things he never had, the gift of healing gives him. But in his noon of glory he is suddenly struck down; and in the darkling and poetic end of all, he learns that the paths of glory lead to the same lowly grave he would in any case have lain in. Yet it might have been otherwise. "Macario," Death says sadly, "you misunderstood the gift." He misunderstood the gift of life-the turkey, which is meant to be shared with other men. He misunderstood the gift of spirit-the water, which heals where God wills and is not meant...
...Army Officers. The country was shocked to learn how deep had lain the seeds of rebellion in the officer corps. In Algeria, a commission set up to investigate individual officers was "helped" by committees of draftee soldiers (quickly dubbed "the Soviets") who accused their wavering commanders. The evidence showed that thousands who had not actively mutinied nonetheless agreed so ardently with Challe's aim of keeping Algeria French that they had not lifted a finger to stop him. With 200 officers under arrest, De Gaulle finally had to call a halt, not because he had caught all the rebel...