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Spain's conservative and puritanical pri mate. Enrique Cardinal Pla y Deniel, 84. Archbishop of Toledo, has vigorously stepped in to defend H.O.A.C.; after Franco lashed out at "some exalted priests" for stirring up trouble in Asturias, Cardinal Pla y Deniel allowed his church officials to discipline the erring priests, but neglected to condemn their activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spain: Toward a Change | 6/22/1962 | See Source »

Last week the House: ¶ Killed (203-191) a Senate-approved, Democratic-sponsored bill to authorize federal construction of nuclear reactors in a new $400 million public-power project, thereby heeding the Administration's pri mary reliance upon private enterprise in this field...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Other Work Done | 8/6/1956 | See Source »

...food for Pri[s]oners and I the scap[e]goat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Splendid Saga | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...Journal, as alert and sharp-eyed as a rooster, has a tabloid-moralistic habit of playing up any smirch involving a Milwaukeean. When the wife of a prominent businessman was caught by a pri vate detective in a hotel room with another man, the Journal front-paged the story: FOUND IN HOTEL WITH A FRIEND. Recently, a distraught Milwaukee housewife telephoned the city desk to beg the paper not to print the news that her husband had been arrested for being drunk and disorderly. "Lady," a Journal reporter told her, "I'm going to give you a break...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Fair Lady of Milwaukee | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

Citizen's Army. In Belleville, 111., Pri vate Rollie Summers Jr., captured on the 32nd day of his third AWOL trip in three months' service, told police that he does not like Army life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, may 11, 1953 | 5/11/1953 | See Source »

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