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Egypt's Strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser last week defended his purchase of arms from the Communists, denied that he intends to start a war with Israel, and behaved like a man convinced that his spoon is long enough to sup with the devil...
Between the gods and the faithful who worship at the 100 Jain* temples of Ahmedabad in western India stand 600-odd priests. Theirs is a hard and holy life; they say ritual prayers, guard temple treasures, abstain from smoking and drinking, sup before sundown (for lamps lure moths to destruction), and wear white cloth pads over their noses and mouths (lest their breathing destroy gnats or germs). Their wages never exceed $5 a month...
...painters the fundamental tech iques and principles of their craft. Greenshields, who paints seashore scenes in his spare time, deplores the fact that few young artists today get enough basic training. He blames "the iconoclasm and unbridled license of a rapidly growing and articulate group of artists and their sup porters who manifest a positive obsession to distort and, where possible, to dispense with all natural forms." Greenshields' huffing and puffing will never blow down the mansion of modern art, for it is no house of cards. But when artists say, as did Montreal Painter Goodridge Roberts, that Greenshields...
...church has the right to teach these certain acts are wrong, but has no right to prohibit them." This view is connected with the belief of many leading Galveston businessmen that sin is good for business; that the tourist trade would fall off if gambling and prostitution were sup pressed...
...Algiers post outranks most Cabinet portfolios in prestige and almost everything else in priority. Soustelle's appointment promises a firm hand at a critical moment in France's relations with North Africa. A cold, intelligent member of a French Calvinist family, Soustelle entered the famed Ecole Normale Supérieure at 17, graduated at 20. An anthropologist and married to an anthropologist, he voyaged to Mexico and South America, wrote a series of outstanding books on the Inca and Aztec cultures. Politically on the left, he joined De Gaulle in London shortly after the fall of France. Later...