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...Sunday Times, borrowing partially from a June story in the U.S. National Catholic Reporter, set it off by charging that empty convents in Europe were "buying Indian peasant girls from the [Indian] Catholic hierarchy." The Italian press quickly picked up the expose. British, Italian and Indian Parliaments rang with demands for an investigation. An Indian M.P. called the practice "slave trade." Girls were pressed into service as menials, the reports charged, while Indian clergy made a tidy profit...
...usually works in the book-lined study of the sea-coast bungalow where he and his wife Lillian spend their vacations. Their 21-year-old daughter Eva laughingly refers to the telephone in the summer home as "the hot line." It rang two weeks ago when U Thant called to summon Jarring to New York to embark upon yet another round of what is generally regarded as the world's most difficult diplomatic mission...
...other, it is constantly shadowed by the threat of bankruptcy. Last week the company ended its anniversary season with a four-week engagement at Manhattan's New York State Theater that broke all box-office records in U.S. ballet history. But even as the final curtain rang down, accompanied by the now familiar sound of bravos, ABT faced a most uncertain future...
...through Zarka, the guerrillas' Voice of Asifa radio station in Cairo broadcast the news. When fighting spread to Amman, Hussein hurried to Basman Palace from his summer villa outside the capital. Along the way, the King and two Jeeploads of royal bodyguards were slowed by a roadblock. Shots rang out, one guard was killed and five were wounded...
Hartman's criticism of Harvard and the GSD has clearly angered the tenured professors of the City Planning Department: Nash, Vigier and Isaacs. Prof. Vigier recently rang up the Ford Foundation and dissuaded it from funding the U.F.S. In June 1969 Professor Nash, then chairman of the City Planning Department, wrote as follows to Hartman: "I have decided that I cannot support your reappointment... and will urge my successor to consider next year as terminal. I am doing this because I am convinced that your method of teaching conveys a sense of political strategy more than the substance of city...