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...Apartment. Billy Wilder oats uproariously sown by Jack Lemmon as a latter-day Alger hero who earns the key to the executive washroom by lending four philandering executives the key to his apartment...
...Embarrassing Central. The seeds of the problem were sown in 1939, when Methodists rejoiced in the completion of a long march to reunion after the split of the Civil War. Three separate churches -the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church-united in a single body made up of six "jurisdictions." Five of them are geographical; the sixth cuts across regional lines, is made up of 367,000 Negroes all over the U.S. At the time, this "Central Jurisdiction" seemed a happy solution, giving Southerners their segregation and Negroes a greater proportion of church...
...Vegas, Nev., but he left Sacramento besieged, bothered and bewildered. His mail, once 10 to 1 in favor of saving Chessman, had turned 3 to 1 in denunciation of the Governor himself. It would surely grow worse in the next 60 days, for, though Caryl Chessman had sown the wind, Pat Brown was reaping the whirlwind...
...gross national product dropped nearly i%, according to the figures, China's national product had shot up five times as fast as that of the Soviet Union. "It is noteworthy," added the experts, "that the rate of output of crops was obtained without any appreciable increase in the sown area...
...summon maturity and seriousness, the bloody events of last week may yet turn out to be what Puerto Rico's Muñoz Marin thinks they are: "A bad thing happening in the midst of a great thing." If not, the seeds of hate sown in the execution ditches will sprout like the Biblical tares...