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...Renée Silvie Portray, for leadership in setting up treatment centers for the mentally retarded in Belgium, and Mrs. Eloisa García Etchegoyhen de Lorenzo, for doing the same in Uruguay (to each, a personal $12,500 plus $25,000 to carry on her work...
...Time of No Religion. Some Christians, of course, have long held that Nietzsche was not just a voice crying in the wilderness. Even before Nietzsche, SÖren Kierkegaard warned that "the day when Christianity and the world become friends, Christianity is done away with." During World War II, the anti-Nazi Lutheran martyr Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote prophetically to a friend from his Berlin prison cell: "We are proceeding toward a time of no religion...
...foreign-language students are learning French; Bucharest even boasts an Arc de Triomphe. Berets are de rigueur in Bucharest's working-class bistros, and the nascent Rumanian film industry-a mere 15 years old-has borrowed French New Wave techniques, along with one of French Director René Clair's cameras, left in the country after a recent filming...
...main purpose of all the mergers is to meet American competition. Says Dr. Albrecht Düren, general manager of the German Chamber of Industry and Commerce: "Of the 30 biggest companies of the Western world in terms of sales, only four are from EEC countries, but 23 are from the U.S." He added, "Nothing must prevent us from putting Europe in a position to compete with the Americans...
...course, there will be problems and conflicts," said Haller. "That's life. I can cook in any language." Even if he has to cook Pedernales-style once in a while, Haller will be closer to the cult of Escoffier than Verdon, who resigned in its cause. For poor René is now chowdering around the country demonstrating electric mixers and grinders...