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...Immaculate Heart of Mary.* Father Larraona has been teaching, writing and lecturing in Rome for 40 years, where he has held a number of posts in the Curia. As the first Claretian cardinal in history, he will be permitted by his order to change his brown robes for scarlet, provided that they are of wool...
...Christopher Robin went down to see the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, A. A. Milne's Alice sympathetically remarked: "A soldier's life is terrible hard." Neither she nor England had seen anything yet. In those days the rigid young sentries in their scarlet tunics and high black bearskins were symbols of imperial glory: Englishmen and foreigners alike respectfully held their tongues and kept their distance. But after World War II was won with a minimum of pomp and circumstance, and the blitz took away war's glamour, the solemn and expressionless sentries marching mechanically...
...last time the Saar "went home" to Germany, after a plebiscite in 1935, scarlet swastika banners waved, brownshirts yelled "Heil Hitler," and the Fuhrer's guttural shouts rasped from street-corner loudspeakers. No such vaunts and threats disturbed the sooty serenity of the Saar last week when the famed coal and steel region on the French border was restored a second time to the German economy...
...Wearing scarlet caps and traditional flowing robes, some 400 imams one day last week left al-Azhar, Islam's oldest university, and fanned out through the streets of Cairo to spread a new-style gospel. The preachers had just completed a two-week course designed to align their ancient faith with the facts of modern life...
Around the walled ring at Xajay bull-breeding ranch in Queretaro, Mexico this week, cowhands watched critically as a young American in blue jeans and baseball cap whirled his scarlet cape in a long veronica, smoothly led the charging young practice heifer past him, its horns coming within inches of his legs. Though still a little stiff from a goring received in a fight a month ago, Baron Clements Jr., 20, of Kilgore, Texas shows signs of becoming the best U.S.-born matador in the alien art of bullfighting since the heyday of Brooklyn's Sidney Franklin 25 years...