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Fugitive-and other-poetry reading will mark this weekend at the Summer School as local poets gather in Lamont Forum Room tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 p.m. to pay tribute to Fugitive John Crowe Ransom in his 70th year. Ransom himself will give a public reading tonight at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
...East German Communists croaked happily over an unexpected treasure when seven U.S. Army artillery officers and two helicopter crewmen strayed off course last month and landed their whirlybird in Soviet-occupied territory. The East Germans, at Russia's prodding, held the nine men prisoner and demanded a high ransom: diplomatic recognition of the East German satellite by the U.S. The U.S. refused to deal, negotiated patiently but fruitlessly at the military level. Finally, the U.S. empowered the American Red Cross to step into the case. Last week, after a month of negotiation with the Communists, the Red Cross brought...
...Bless you, Mrs. Cronin; you have compiled the best list of contributing causes to teachers' headaches that I have seen in a long time," wrote Sister Mary Ransom, dean of Louisville's Nazareth College, in a not entirely convincing reply. Sister Mary's points: 1) questionnaires are an attempt to find out which children suffer from unhappy homes and thus enable the church to offer help; 2) play costumes are costly and so too are the increasing number of lay teachers needed in growing parochial schools; 3) mission collections teach children to make sacrifices; 4) Mrs. Cronin...
...hand at the conference: a crowd of Communist newsmen and one lone Westerner, Associated Press Reporter Seymour Topping (see PRESS). Presumably the Communists hoped that by showing off U.S. servicemen in captivity they could prod the U.S. public into prodding the U.S. Government to pay a high soldiers' ransom. The ransom, openly demanded through spokesmen for the Russians: U.S. recognition-actual or implied-of Communist satellite East Germany as a diplomatic equal...
...used as tools." Other Army men shouted at the Communists: "You're kidnapers!" And when, in a quiet moment, the AP's Topping told the Army's Kemper that the U.S. was 1) demanding his men's release but was 2) refusing to pay the ransom of recognizing the Red satellite, Major Kemper grinned. "That's enough for us," he said. "You can tell them that we'll sweat it out as long as it takes...