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Cautioning newsmen against reporting the Second Vatican Council as if it were a political convention, Auxiliary Bishop Fulton J. Sheen of New York offered some imaginary stories that might have been written by political-minded reporters before the Council of Jerusalem in A.D. 51. "Now," said Sheen, "go back and read the report of the council in the Acts of the Apostles. Did the precouncil 'press reports' of conflicts, blocs and groups ever materialize...
...Flemings now have the numerical edge-5,250,000 to 4,000,000-a majority in Parliament, a Flemish Prime Minister and, thanks to a postwar inflow of U.S. firms to capitalize on Flanders' cheap, ample labor, a glossy sheen of wellbeing. Wallonia, meanwhile, is practically a depressed area, dotted with played-out coal mines and plagued with rising unemployment. But the Flemings still see all sorts of injustices, complain, for instance, that they have only 13 of Belgium's 83 diplomatic jobs abroad. While Brussels is officially bilingual from its street signs down to its liquor labels...
...Strings (Ralph Burns and Orchestra; Epic). Some composers' romantic fancies need the sheen of strings, and some do not. Dick Rodgers' ballads do. Conductor Burns, who orchestrated the show, here mixes in the strings that are missing on Broadway. The Sweetest Sounds, Nobody Told Me and the title song never sounded better...
Though the much-touted German economic miracle has lost some of its sheen lately, unemployment in West Germany last month dropped to its lowest level since World War II. The number of West Germans currently out of a job is down to 97,500-mostly unemployables-out of a total labor force of 27 million. West German businessmen have already imported nearly 700,000 foreign workers and have 626,000 job openings going begging...
...follow. The Communists know how to conquer good people too." Syndicating Buckley was the inspiration of Harry E. Elmlark, general manager of New York's George Matthew Adams Serv ice, whose wares run a gamut from comic strips and cooking advice to inspirational columnists, e.g., Bishop Fulton J. Sheen...