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Died. Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed, 72, fifth President of India and staunch supporter of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi; of a heart attack; in New Delhi. A lifelong champion of democracy and secular rule in India, the Moslem-born, Cambridge-educated Ahmed joined his country's independence movement in 1931, and was jailed twice by the British. His last official act was to sign an order for new parliamentary elections...
Proud Traditions. As Salutin's play suggests, there was a time when Les Canadiens worked as a symbol for Quebec spirit. The French of Canada, proud of their traditions and staunch in their Roman Catholicism, felt repressed by Anglo-Saxon Protestantism. In 1955, when Maurice Richard, the great Montreal forward, was suspended by Clarence Campbell, the league president, for scuffling with an official, French fans smashed shop windows along Rue Ste. Catherine. Although this was a melee, not a rational debate, popular sociologists went as wild as the fans. Les Canadiens, they suggested, were not merely a hockey team...
...York's wealthiest and most illustrious families, and the bulk of the Thomas family income was derived from her sizeable inheritance. Thomas sent his children to private schools, owned a luxurious country house, employed several servants, and enthusiastically supported his wife's hobby of raising cocker spaniels. A staunch, and early, opponent of racial discrimination he nevertheless swam at the exclusively white Cold Spring Harbor Club, where he enjoyed the company of cold warrior brothers Allen and John Foster Dulles, whose views on practically every subject were diametrically opposed...
...indeed gratifying to join TIME in the heartfelt "Welcome to the Great Black Way!" [Nov. 1] but it was also a little sad for this lifelong (54 years) fan and staunch supporter of the theater...
Jesus as Communist. The bishops of Colombia hold to a staunch conservative line. Bogota's Anibal Cardinal Munoz Duque accepted the title of army brigadier general and suspended 100 priests and nuns who backed striking bank workers. Colombian priests, however, are increasingly activist; 500 of them recently sent a petition to the Vatican charging that their bishops were "allied with the exploiter against the exploited." On the radical left, Father Saturnino Sepulveda, a leader of the Marxistoriented Priests for Latin America, declares: "I see Jesus Christ as the secretary general of the first ever Communist Party...