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Newman's dream of a first-class, thoroughly Catholic university went up in the smoke of a thousand bonfires five hundred years ago. The church cannot and will not tolerate any thoroughgoing study of man as part and parcel of nature. Whether he likes it or not, Father Hesburgh cannot be other than a medieval man. His profession compels...
...circling DC-4 bounced through the tropical thunderstorm over Elisabethville, a cryptic message crackled down to the tower: "I've got a big parcel for you fellows." Minutes later, the parcel stumbled down the plane ramp into the eager hands of the tough Katanga gendarmes. It was Patrice Lumumba, blindfolded and shackled to two of his government lieutenants. The Katanga cops fell on all three, dropped them to the ground in a hail of swinging rifle butts. Then they flung Lumumba into a waiting Jeep. With four gendarmes sitting on him, Lumumba was whisked...
...University will close at noon on Friday and re-open at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 27. Otherwise, all departments except the libraries and the dining halls will operate on regular schedules during the Christmas recess. All Freshman dorms and all Houses will be open, and mail and parcel post delivery will continue as usual...
More Nibbles. As a symbolic gesture to support the claim that Berlin is part and parcel of West Germany, the West German Bundestag has regularly met once a year in West Berlin. This year's session was scheduled to be held this fall, but the East Germans declared that the meeting would be considered provocative; Adenauer ordered the session postponed-probably indefinitely...
...technique is one of pure simplicity," says Karsh. "I generate so much enthusiasm when working that the subject becomes part and parcel of this enthusiasm." Actually it is not that simple. He arms himself with extensive research on the habits, mannerisms and quirks of his subject. "I live in utter agony after I have taken the picture. I know there are so many things I could have done to make it better, but I am exhausted." His fees: $600 in the U.S., $200 for Ottawans, $300 for anyone who comes from elsewhere to Ottawa...