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...live up to his gubernatorial campaign promises and solve state problems before he tries to move out into national politics. Last week the Detroit News, one of Romney's strongest supporters during his 1962 campaign, gave him unshirted hell in an editorial: "Governor Romney's stature as a public servant who speaks in words without double meanings suffers each day he fails to say flatly that he would not accept the 1964 Republican presidential nomination if it were offered . . . Romney's procrastination-or, as his critics inevitably will say, his fascination with national publicity-threatens Michigan's best interests...
...Daughters. In this gentle and witty two-part film, the camera of India's Satyajit Ray speaks a universal language. The Postmaster tells of the touching relationship between a backwoods postmaster and a ten-year-old girl who is his servant; The Conclusion is a comedy about a reluctant bride, ardent groom and spoiled mother...
...Problematic." Elevated to the papacy when he was nearly 77, John XXIII was "servant of the servants of God" less than five years-the shortest reign since the obscure Pius VIII, who ruled for 20 ailing months after his election in 1829. But far from being the caretaker that the church expected, John created an atmosphere in which, says Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, "a lot of things came unstuck -old patterns of thought, behavior, feeling. They were not challenged or refuted, but just sort of dropped...
...Daughters. In this gentle and witty two-part film, the camera of India's Satyajit Ray speaks a universal language. The Postmaster tells of the touching relationship between a backwoods postmaster and a ten-year-old girl who is his servant; The Conclusion is a comedy about a reluctant bride, ardent groom and spoiled mother...
...principal elsewheres is the federal capital of Ottawa, where a French-speaking civil servant who receives a letter in French must send it to a translation bureau to be put into English. Even French-speaking civil servants are required to communicate with each other in English; it simplifies filing...