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...Negroes, who resembled college students failed in an armed robery attempt last night in the Financial Aid Office. The attack which occurred at 11:15 p.m., was apparently an attempt to steal the wallet of Byron Stookey, Jr. '57, an assistant in the office...
...movie relentlessly propels Dr. Helga Reinbeck toward a pitiless, inescapable end. Typhus cuts down scores of the Yugoslav fighters. Their medicine supplies run out. Helga and a woman partisan (Barbara Rutting), veiled in the garb of Moslem peasants, steal into a Nazi-held town to retrieve a cache of drugs concealed there. After the other woman is killed, Helga, bearing the medicines, sets off alone across a bridge, ignoring the fusillades that crackle from both banks of the river it spans. Then the enemies, in one of those little miracles that sometimes momentarily halt a war, recognize...
Amid the stainless steel, leatherette and Formica of coffee shops in Manhattan's Radio City, balding businessmen and their wives from Wichita or Fort Wayne worried over the foreign schedules prepared by hard-pressed travel agents. "Well," one of them murmured, "if Ellen insists, I suppose we could steal a day from Venice to take in Portofino, but where will that leave our two days in Zurich?" In Hannover, Heidelberg and Hamm, German mothers wrapped the last of huge piles of Butterbrote in waxed paper as their cantankerous and impatient offspring squabbled over who was to sit where...
Some Catholic laymen urged the hierarchy to come out against Fethard's fethardism. Replied Galway's Bishop Michael Browne: "Non-Catholics do not protest against the crime of conspiring to steal the children of a Catholic father, but they try to make political capital when a Catholic people make a peaceful and moderate protest." Even the venerable Taoiseach Catholic, Eamon de Valera, leaped into the Donnybrook: fethardism, he declared, is "ill-conceived, ill-considered and futile...
...Industry, and the onetime head of the Hungarian manufacturers' association. Tied to this "Horthy plot" was a group of Roman Catholic priests, also rounded up. Among them was Father Egon Albert Turcsanyi, onetime secretary to Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, who is accused of leading an armed group to steal documents from the State Church Office on the orders of Cardinal Mindszenty (now in refuge in the U.S. Legation in Budapest...