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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Said the Christian Century: "Roman Catholic spokesmen are generally critical of President Eisenhower for inviting Premier Khrushchev to this country. As usual, a cardinal or an archbishop spoke first and then others fell into line, including the obedient Catholic press . . . However, the wisest Catholic leaders must know that criticism can be overdone...
...outposts crumpled, 39-year-old Brigadier General Amkha Soukhavong, the Laotian army's regional commander, sat on the porch of his headquarters in Samneua City, peeling litchi nuts and staring morosely at the mildewed Roman Catholic church across the street. For French-trained General Amkha, who still holds the rank of captain in the French army, it was a nightmare war. What news of the front he could get came from runners, a handful of Red prisoners and an endless stream of refugees :women with babies, men burdened with mattresses and sewing machines, a ten-year-old boy toting...
...public works as "disguised hypocrisy," and bestowed stretches of highway to qualified areas (i.e., they voted right) in the fashion of a feudal lord. He set elections for Wednesdays, day of devotion to St. Joseph, his patron saint, and went faithfully to 6 a.m. Mass at the Quebec City Roman Catholic basilica, while his bodyguard, a Protestant, waited impassively in the rear of the church. Neither the man nor his government could have happened anywhere but in Quebec...
...stardom ("You become everybody's personal property''), but by 1946 she was there, like a thousand others, sitting around on sets, earning little more than the right to join the extras union. She finally landed a meaty role in Champion, with Kirk Douglas and Ruth Roman. The picture, says Lola, "set up Kirk and Ruth. Afterwards. I couldn't get a job. I went to New York to look for work on TV. Champion was playing on Broadway. There was my picture out front-all the reviews said 'Here's a new star...
...Roman Catholic Archbishop of the Archdiocese of New York. Francis Cardinal Spellman - Whitman High School, Whitman, Mass...