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...chling, 82, head of the Röchling Iron and Steel Works in Völklingen through World Wars I and II, sometime Nazi industrial boss of the Saar; in Mannheim, Germany. The first industrialist to be convicted of waging aggressive war (1948), Röchling had his seven-year sentence boosted to ten by a French appeals court, was later released in 1951, and barred with his family from entering the Saar or his factories, now French...
...Seven-Year Grind. Anglican Witcutt became a Roman Catholic, and resolved to study for the priesthood. He persuaded Catholic authorities to waive their rule requiring converts to spend two years in the church before entering the seminary, and within a month of his reception into the church, plunged into a seven-year seminary grind at Oscott...
...Plato to Spinoza," of which a revised edition of his Spinoza work would from the terminal point. Working "backwards and sideways," he next published a two-volume work on Philo (in 1947), which are the second volumes in the series. The third set on the Church Fathers, after a seven-year delay for revision, is now at the press, while the material for other books lies squeezed in two large manuscript filled filing cabinets at one end of the room. This series, together with his project of publishing Averroes' commentaries on Aristotle in three languages (which should fill a hundred...
...grant is the largest in the seven-year history of the Trust and is $15,000 more than was distributed last year. Columbia, Princeton, and Yale will receive equal amounts...
...weeks before the presidential election, Fanfani and Scelba had been conferring with the three minor parties of the coalition to decide who should succeed Luigi Einaudi, a Liberal, as President. Einaudi is widely respected, but he is 81, and many disliked setting a precedent of a second seven-year term. Scelba declared the candidate should not be a Christian Democrat. The Liberals. Social Democrats and Scelba's own faction in the Christian Democrats were willing to support Einaudi. Fanfani was not. At an eleventh-hour meeting before the Deputies and Senators gathered in Rome's big Montecitorio Palace...