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...amaz ing display, not only of the Eleanorean character and its impact upon the feverishly nationalistic (and often anti-Ameri can) East, but of Eleanorean durability. Mrs. Roosevelt is now 67 years old. She had just concluded three exhausting months as a delegate to the United Na tions session in Paris. She had flown through the Middle East with rubberneck stops at Beirut, Damascus, Amman, Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. She had prefaced her tour of India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi...
...Queen Elizabeth. By Catholic account, Scottish James actually sought Catholic support for himself when he first moved to London, changed his mind when he found himself popular with his Protestant subjects. On viewing his first cheering English crowd, the story goes, James turned to a councilor and said, "Na, na, guid fayth, wee's not need the Papists...
...Government's Point Four program to develop the economies of backward na tions with private capital has been a flop...
...care for children. Ireland's doctors opposed the bill and the Roman Catholic Church came out against it because it would mean state interference in private family concerns. Another opponent: Sean MacBride, Foreign Minister in the Costello cabinet and leader of Browne's own party, the Clann Na Poblachta (whose platform is mildly leftish). Denouncing both Costello and MacBride, Browne resigned. Last week Browne, running as an independent, was re-elected to his seat by a comfortable majority. MacBride and his party suffered heavy losses...
Moriarty's was soon the Yaleman's second home. It picked up the na,me of "the quiet House," and class after class of Eli undergraduates developed a great fondness for the short, stumpy imitation English oak door, the sort, stumpy bar, the short, stumpy proprietor, and his short stumpy wife...