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...story told by Novelist Lucy Daniels concerns the large, respectable and reasonably happy family of a Negro chauffeur in a Southern town. To them, the Supreme Court's decision comes hard. The father, a nonentity in his white boss's house but a patriarch in his own, is simply distressed by the news: "I don' know . . . But I cain't see Saul goin' to school wid white kids ... I cain't see me sittin' side o' Mistah Charles on the bus neitha . . I think they's plenty mo' feel...
Over the Shoulder. The Republicans heard the sounds of the past. Rough-hewn Joe Martin looked over his political shoulder and spoke of "the past that despoiled our heritage with the indelible stains of corruption and Communism." Patriarch Herbert Hoover, erect and unbowed at 82, touched off one of the convention's most heartfelt demonstrations, thanked the old friends who had stood up for him through thick and thin ("And some of those years where they stood up were pretty thin"), traced the development of man's freedoms from Greece and Rome to Runnymede to Philadelphia...
Spiritual followers of Jacob Hutter, a 16th century Moravian patriarch who preached literal obedience to the Scriptures, the Hutterites first settled in South Dakota; in 1918 many of them moved to Alberta to escape U.S. draft laws. They established seven colonies, or Bruderhofe, each with 50 to 75 members. As each colony became overcrowded, it divided its assets to set up a new Bruderhof...
After the Bible. Some of Butler's saints have been eliminated by modern scholarship, shortage of facts or plain obscurity (there is no all-inclusive calendar of Catholic saints). Notable among the additions is St. John Cassian. 5th century patriarch of monasticism, whose work was rated by St. Benedict as, after the Bible, the most suitable reading for Benedictine monks. Butler banned him. presumably for his leanings toward semi-Pelagianism (heretical insistence on man's perfectibility without God's help), but Attwater prefers to call him "anti-Augustinian." Other newcomers are those canonized since Butler...
Manuel Prado, the scholarly, conservative patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family, last week won the presidency of Peru with the help of the country's big, left-wing APRA party. In a five-day unofficial vote count, former President (1939-45) Prado inched steadily ahead of Architect Fernando Belaunde Terry, a young amateur politician whose campaign had suddenly caught fire two weeks before election day; both of them left the government's official candidate, Hernando de Lavalle, far behind. Totals at week's end:* Prado 445,000, Belaunde 404,000, Lavalle...