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...SCIENCE). Next day he dropped in at 10 Downing Street for a surprise visit, conferred for an hour with U.S. Ambassador Winthrop W. Aldrich. At week's end, he was in the royal box at Doncaster, where Queen Elizabeth saw her horse Aureole finish third in the St. Leger stakes, later joined the royal family at Balmoral Castle to celebrate his 45th wedding anniversary with Lady Churchill. The London News Chronicle, viewing all this activity with approval, commented: "Now that he is back in the news, life as the inhabitants of Britain have come to know it assumes...
...world's leading artists, a surprising number wear the Communist label in varying shades of red. In Mexico, Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros are all-weather Communists; France's Fernand Leger often parrots the party line; so does Italy's Renato Guttuso. Last week two of modern art's foremost painters, both avowed Communists, were displaying their latest approach to an age-old theme: war and peace...
...Cannes, the rich Aga Khan got richer by selling his unbeaten Tulyar, winner of the Epsom Derby, the St. Leger and five other British stakes races, to the government-sponsored Irish National Stud for $700,000. The news instantly 1) gratified Irish horse breeders, 2) roused Laborite opponents of Premier Eamon de Valera to demand a parliamentary debate on the purchase, "in view of the already heavy burden on the taxpayers...
Paul-Emile Léger, 48, Archbishop of Montreal and a member of the Sulpician order. Archbishop Leger spent six years teaching in Japan, was later appointed rector of the Canadian College in Rome (1947-50). An outspoken, rigidly pious man, he has campaigned for strict enforcement of Canada's liquor laws, against bingo, lotteries, stag parties...
...other a cliff of marble and translucent glass strips. A long ramp leads up to the 2,170 seat Assembly hall. Along the walls are banks of transla tors' booths set in strips of gilded South American mahogany. Two vivid, swirling murals by France's Fernand Leger flank the hall, and over the podium will shine rows of plaques bearing the seals of the 60 United Nations...