Word: rolande
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...Died. Roland J. Thomas, 66, president of the United Auto Workers from 1939 to '46, a tough, tobacco-chewing unionist who fought his way from welder at a Chrysler plant to the top of his union after taking part in the bloodily bitter 1937 General Motors and Chrysler strikes, later allowed far-leftists to infiltrate many of his locals, and subsequently lost his job to Walter Reuther after an angry, close-fought election in 1946; of a stroke; in Muskegon, Mich...
...last week made a series of appointments aimed at strengthening Canada's top echelon of officials. First, he reached among his former political rivals for a new Governor General to succeed Georges Philias Vanier, who died last month. His choice to represent the Queen in Canada is Daniel Roland Michener, 66, a former Conservative Member of Parliament and onetime Speaker of the House whose latest post has been that of Canada's High Commissioner (ambassador) to India. As Governor General, mustachioed Michener will provide a fitting bipartisan representation in Canada's highest official councils during the centennial...
...Lutheran and the author of Katherine, Wife of Luther, I spent many years studying the times and life of this great, God-sent man. The only thing I can't quite agree with, even though Roland Bainton has said it, is that Luther was by the time of his death "an irascible old man." The last two weeks before Luther's death he was obliged to spend in Mansfeld to restore peace between two quarreling brothers. During these two weeks he wrote five lively letters to Kate, telling her how much he loved her and extolling...
...more than other reformers, Luther towers over his century by the sheer force of his personality, Churchillian in its scope and complexity. Yale's Roland Bainton, whose Here I Stand is one of the best modern biographies of the reformer, says that "Luther is not an individual. He is a phenomenon." Dr. Jerald Brauer, dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, calls Luther "one of the three or four greatest figures in the history of Christianity, perhaps the greatest prophetic figure in post-Apostolic Western Christendom...
Thus, like a peek inside some space-age incubator, began the world première last week of Roland Petit's Paradise Lost - no direct kin, obviously, to John Milton's sturdy epic of the same name. Neon eggs are unusual enough, but more unusual was the fact that the work was hatched by London's Royal Ballet, the venerable guardian of traditional repertory. What is more, the roles of Adam and Eve were danced by the foremost duo in romantic ballet, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn...