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Diefenbaker's youth was a conscious preparation for public life. He was born in Sept. 18, 1895 in the Ontario village of Newstadt, son of a German-descended schoolteacher who liked to boast that he had taught William Lyon Mackenzie King, Canada's famed and durable (1921-48, except for five years) Liberal Prime Minster. When John was eight, father Diefenbaker took his family to a Saskatchewan crossroads where the northern prairies turn into a subarctic wasteland of muskeg, timber and lakes. There one day father Diefenbaker tied a red bandanna to the rim of a wagon wheel...
...soon as Captain Pierre, commander of the Kong-Plong outpost in south Indo-China, saw the handsome, flaxen-haired corporal from Lyon, he felt that he had a solution to the problem of winning over certain Moi' tribes which had taken up a neutral position in the war with the Communist-led Viet Minh. After a workout with the colonial troops, Corporal Riesen, the author of this book, was sent into the mountainous jungle 'of central Viet Nam. Friendly Moi' chieftains offered him a bride. Corporal Riesen demurred ("She was only nineteen and very pretty . . . with...
...asthma, improves more than half of the patients with skin diseases. Most French doctors let their patients take the waters on the theory that they will do no harm, and may do some good. "Cures always have a hygienic value," says Professor Pierre Delore of the University of Lyon's Faculty of Medicine. "They are an occasion for giving calm and also for ridding the system of its poisons. They are healthy vacations...
...ever considered itself captive. Sizer not only became a leading authority on American art, he also grew into something of a legend. Last week, at 65, as he prepared to retire from teaching, he was already as much a part of Yale lore as John ("Daily Themes") Berdan, William Lyon Phelps and the crotchety Johnsonian, Chauncey Brewster Tinker...
...last week began the third plenary assembly of the French Catholic Church since World War II. Except for the microphone on the table in front of Cardinal Liénart, where he presided with his fellow cardinals (Feltin of Paris. Gerlier of Lyon, Grente of Le Mans. Roques of Rennes), the scene might have been one from the church's potent medieval past. But St. Louis IX of France (1215-70) would have been saddened by the three grim problems before the French hierarchy : 1) the growing shortage of priests, 2) the defiance of the Worker Priests...