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Next day, two Indian Canberras swooped down for a shot at Elisabethville's central post office, a Katangese strongpoint in the heart of town, just around the corner from the Leo II. The jets were after the post office's central switchboard and telegraph machines, soon reduced the machinery to molten ruins as Katangese operators fled for their lives...
...Please attack the United Nations dogs!'' But things were not all serious. Radio Katanga also played "victory" cha cha chas. And after the heat of battle was over one day, most of the Katangese officers, chewing their entrecôtes de veau and pommes frites at the Leo II's dining room, could talk of little else but the tragedy of the Sabena guest house, where artillery that day had shattered one of the best restaurants in town...
Called Aeterna Dei Sapientia (The Eternal Wisdom of God), from its opening words, the new encyclical commemorates the 15th centenary of Pope St. Leo I, the strong-minded Bishop of Rome from 440 to 461 who dissuaded Attila the Hun from sacking the city in 452, and asserted papal supremacy and discipline over bishops of both Christian East and West. In his new appeal for Christian unity, Pope John avoids mention of Communism by name, but notes that "the Catholic Church finds herself in the same sorrowful position as in the 5th century.'' Because of the threat...
...planned one-day program of picketing government buildings, distributing a policy statement, meeting with every Senator and Congressman, and receiving Dr. Leo Szilard's speech at an open rally will be supplemented by nationwide demonstrations by sympathizers wearing blue armbands...
...runner and scorer, would fill out the mythical Ivy Lackfield. On the line would be ends Dave Usher of Dartmouth and Bob Boyda of Harvard; tackles Darwin Wile of Harvard and Bob Asack of Columbia; guards Bill Swinford of Harvard and Bill Tragakis of Dartmouth; and center Leo Black of Columbia...