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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...universities in Poland, none is held in higher esteem among true scholars-and none is in a sadder state of repair-than the Catholic University of Lublin. Its run-down main building still bears the pockmarks left by World War II shells. Its students live five to a room, and the thin stew they get for lunch could well stand more meat. But as all Poles know, there is one thing that Lublin has in abundance. "Throughout all the difficult years." says the rector, Father Marian Rechowicz, "we survived on spirit...
...addition to these main groups today, there are other communities following the Franciscan rule, e.g., the Franciscan Friars of the Atonement, the Missionary Sisters of St. Francis...
...were functional but inconveniently located. Women won't have it that way; they want galleys in the open, where they can call up the deckhouse easily, and they want plenty of space. The galley has automatic hot-and cold-water systems, dish racks, food-storage cabinets and the main cabin has wall-to-wall carpeting, overstuffed couches...
...wickedly witty portrait of an atheistic, humanist household headed by a zealot father who devoutly believes that religion is "nothing but a means of maintaining injustice, corruption and poverty," and a euphoric mother who dismisses all that sort of thing as "Bloomsbury talk." But the narrator's main concern is love, and the way in which it has come to six women of her acquaintance. The backgrounds range from bomb-flattened Warsaw to fat and peaceful Stockholm, from English country houses to the ski slopes of Austria's Vorarlberg. The people are nearly as cosmopolitan as Author Zilliacus...
Despite some soft spots, the main problem for the U.S. was still inflation. Testifying before a joint congressional committee last week, Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin noted that prices were climbing steadily (TIME, May 18), said firmly that there is no question of easing credit at the moment. Top officials of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce also predicted in Washington last week that prices will continue to climb for the rest of the year, though perhaps at a slower rate than formerly...