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...loyal F.L.N. fighter for Algeria's freedom. Now he was just another enemy of Premier Ahmed ben Bella-a member of the underground Party of the Socialist Revolution, which today accuses Ben Bella of "neocolonialism, personal dictatorship and sabotage of the revolution." Caught with Harraig in the roundup were about 40 fellow ringleaders in the underground party. Government agents also had their eyes on Algiers' Communists, whose organization now was outlawed. Ben Bella hastened to add that he had not banned the Communist Party-or any other group-for ideology alone. "It is simply prohibited," explained Information Minister...
...catastrophe, Father Daniel has been a fervent Zionist since his childhood in Poland. During the German occupation he posed as a Silesian Christian, and, working as a police interpreter, he managed to save half the Jewish community of the town of Mir by warning them of an imminent Nazi roundup. Rufeisen spent the next 15 months hiding in a convent. Baptized by the nuns, Father Daniel joined the Carmelite Order in Poland, gave up his Polish passport to come to Israel...
...Roundup. On the morning of Monday, Oct. 22, Kennedy worked over the TV speech that would break the news to the nation that night. The order went out to round up congressional leaders-wherever they were-and fly them back to Washington. The Air Force brought House Speaker John McCormack from his home in Boston, House Republican Leader Charles Halleck from a pheasant-hunting trip in South Dakota, Senate Minority...
...temporary roundup of pictures borrowed for a single showing, "Art: USA: Now" is the collection bought last spring by waxmakers S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc. This month the firm will launch the $750,000 show on what promises to be one of the longest and farthest-flung tours in the history of painting. Says Company Chairman Herbert F. Johnson: "Our interest in this project might be described as a sort of act of faith in American art." American Express. After its opening at the Milwaukee Art Center on Sept. 21, the show will make a second debut in Vienna...
...doubt your California correspondent's basic account of Oakland's Golden State Square Dance Roundup [June 8] was reasonably accurate. But the added material sounded as if it came out of a book about Early American square dancing...