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During the next twelve months, nearly 900,000 pilgrims are expected to visit Italy. "There will come together . . . " said the Pope in his annual Christmas message, "those to whom it was commanded to sow death and those who suffered the terrifying effects of these commands . . . We believe that these thousands of our children will . . . take back to their countries the strength of Christ's peace...
Seeds & Secrets. Because its members were dynamic, practical men and forces in the community, Masonry became a quiet but dynamic force in history. It carried 18th Century Protestant civilization into the frontiers of North America. It helped sow the seeds of the French Revolution-and thereby contributed to the destruction of the enlightened French noblemen who had taken...
...militant $17,500-a-year president (since 1928) of the 216,000-strong Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen; of a heart attack; in Bay Village, Ohio. Whitney once vowed to unseat President Truman after the unsuccessful 1946 rail strike ("You can't make a silk purse out of a sow's ear and you can't make a President out of a ribbon salesman"). He later backtracked and gave Truman all-out support. Said the President in his message of condolence: "[He] became . . . the exemplar of the philosopher's teaching that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin...
...Centers of Power. Clearly Russia and her minions were girded for a powerful polemical battle-not to stop the North Atlantic pact, since it was now an accomplished fact, but to weaken and delay its implementation, hinder its extension, sow distrust of its intentions. Beyond polemics there would be further pressure -among other places, in Eastern Germany, where the Russian occupation authority last week pushed the formation of a Communist state; in the Far East, where the victorious Chinese Communists denounced the North Atlantic pact, and declared that they would stand solidly behind Moscow in any future...
...campaign began in earnest last week at Illinois' sprawling state fair. There Republicans ate high off the hog, while Democrats got sow belly...