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...face of racking scandal, few heads of government could have shown more outward aplomb than Prime Minister Lester Pearson. His Justice Minister Guy Favreau got a severe dressing down from Chief Justice Frédéric Dorion for having fumbled a notorious-bribery case involving four highly placed Liberals and a Montreal racketeer. For that, Favreau resigned (TIME, July 9), but Pearson loyally pronounced his continuing faith in his talented protégé. Last week Pearson named Favreau president of the Privy Council. The job might have been a sinecure, but Pearson tacked on a key role...
...astronomers probe outward in space, they are looking backward in time, because the light that they see from very distant objects started its journey millions of years ago. They see the light from stars that no longer exist, and chart strange, starlike objects that could hold the secret of how the universe began. Quasars (for quasi-stellar radio sources) are the most intriguing of these objects, the oldest and most brilliant things in the observable universe, and the sources of powerful and mysterious radio waves. Now astronomers have identified a new class of quasi-stellar objects shining...
Negro Affairs starts with the excitement of a diverse, sophisticated radicalism unburdened by ideology. Even the details of printing, typeface, and design are uncommonly good. If the magazine blossoms outward, there are few limits to the stimulation it may provide...
...Moro), participated in a notably laudatory exchange of toasts. Lyndon: "I salute you as a friend and companion, as a leader in the community of Europe, as a wise and respected voice on the stage of the world." Moro: "We hope that all of your endeavors, so enlightened and outward-looking both in the domestic and foreign fields, may prove effective and fruitful...
Inner Weakness. But many orientalists see a basic ambiguity in Islam's position, and feel that outward expansion is matched by inner weakness. One such weakness is that Moslem devotion, outside of rural areas where social pressure to conform runs strong, is often little more than skin-deep. Morocco still fines men caught smoking during Ramadan, and Malaya's Moslem courts zealously crack down on khalwat (close association of the sexes). Saudi Arabia has neither alcohol nor movies, but even here faith is succumbing to the influences of modernism: this year Jeddah will have a TV station...