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...Common Market executive and their staff drive cars marked with special European license plates, send their children to the European high school, and, except for accents, have lost many of their national traits or concerns. Of all these new civil servants, still the most tireless at 72 is Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet, the most dedicated international ist of them all-although at the same time he remains as thoroughly French as Cognac, the town of his birth...
...OMER F. BROWN...
...Died. Omer Carmichael, 66, Alabama cotton farmer's son and onetime backwoods teacher, who as superintendent (since 1945) of the Louisville, Ky. school system told his staff after the Supreme Court's decision against school segregation: "It will be my purpose to implement that decision with no effort to sidestep, no effort by subterfuge or sharp practices to defeat the purpose of the court," launched a campaign with such tact and perseverance that Louisville schools, from kindergarten through high school, were completely integrated in 1956 without a touch of violence; of a heart attack; in Louisville...
...Tourists. Gage was born into the bloody-minded time which brewed England's Civil War. The Gage family were militants of Roman Catholicism, and Thomas probably had to change his name as well as his country to get a Catholic education. He studied in Spain and at St. Omer's in French Flanders, a school set up for English Catholics on the run, and became a priest. After 16 years, most of them spent as a Dominican missionary in Mexico and Guatemala, Gage returned to England in 1637 and renounced Catholicism. He became a Protestant clergyman...
...family and Catholic sympathizers. At length he preached a sermon of recantation in St. Paul's just six days after King Charles I raised his standard at Nottingham and began war against his Puritan Parliament. Thereafter, Gage sent to torture and the scaffold an old schoolmate from St. Omer's, a Jesuit priest. There is also some evidence that he actually informed on one of his own brothers, a priest who was executed. Another brother, a colonel in King Charles's army, out of shame offered him a thousand pounds to leave the country...