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...Beautiful Afternoon. The three-day vacation trip was a special outing, particularly for Lillian Getting, who had spent long days and nights nursing her heart-patient husband through a tough recuperation period. With her husband well on the mend, she got into Frankie Murphy's Ford station wagon and set out with her friends for Starved Rock. They were prepared for a tranquil time: Mildred Lindquist brought her copy of A Field Guide to the Birds; Lillian Getting took a novel, The Lincoln Lords; they had their knitting, a pair of binoculars and a 35-mm. camera...
...paper's size from an average 55 pages to 28. What most worried the Franco Cabinet was that the Catalan boycott, in addition to being anti-Galinsoga, was becoming increasingly antigovernment. Within the week after Galinsoga got fired, La Vanguardia was four pages fatter and plainly on the mend...
...House. Sending his right-hand man, Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, to mend badly neglected and sagging fences in the northern Syrian province, Nasser took personal charge of his lagging Egyptian land-reclamation program and recently handed title to 350 new smallholders at Edku in the Nile delta. At Port Said last month, he proclaimed that his first $870 million, five-year industrialization plan was creating 800,000 new jobs, and that his $1.3 billion rural-development program would "build a house for every farmer, give every farmer a cow, and . . . change our society." The U.S. has not yet matched...
...Chaplain Hedley's main concerns is disunity in the Christian Church -"the pathetic tearing of the seamless robe of Christ." Hoping to help mend it, and also to ease the minds of Episcopal students who take the sacraments at his hands, Chaplain Hedley, with the consent of his own Methodist bishop, applied to California's Protestant Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike for ordination under Canon...
Recumbent Wishes. In 1957, full of years, Herriot died at 84. Ex-Premier Guy Mollet called him "the very incarnation of the Republic." Said ex-Premier Pierre Mendès-France: "For 34 years I have admired, followed and loved him." Herriot's free-thinking friends were at first startled, and then indignant, to hear that on his deathbed, Lifelong Agnostic Edouard Herriot had gone back into the Roman Catholic Church, and been buried with church ritual...