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Four years ago Happy Chandler, ineligible to seek re-election as Governor of Kentucky, sadly watched a band of dissident Democrats rebel against his organization, nominate and elect Bert Combs as his successor. Vowed Happy as he saw Combs sworn in: "I will come back and clean them out again." But it did not turn out that way-and last week Happy was sadder than ever...
...Congressman from Ohio went over to the Supreme Court, had his credentials presented, got sworn in, signed the register, paid his $25, and went back to work on Capitol Hill. For freshman Representative Robert A. Taft Jr., 46. admission to practice before the highest U.S. tribunal placed him squarely in a family tradition that goes back before the Civil War. Preceding him to the Supreme Court bar were his father, the late Senator Robert A. Taft; grandfather. President William Howard Taft; and great-grandfather, Alphonso Taft, Attorney General under President Grant...
None of this thinking is particularly new to the theological academies, but many Anglicans were shocked that it should come from a bishop sworn to defend the church against heresy. "It is not every day," grumbled the Church Times, "that a bishop goes on public record as apparently denying almost every Christian doctrine of the church in which he holds office." The Manchester Guardian called it a "dangerous tract," suitable only for theologians to read, and in a front-page editorial, London's Daily Mail wondered "whether he should continue as a bishop...
...Society spends most of its time distributing literature ("Decency Today Means Morality Tomorrow") and serving printed "summonses" to persons found violating SINA's Constitution by appearing in public with naked animals. These documents warn that "the SINA Constitution requires you to answer this summons in person or through a sworn statement before the Executive Board of SINA...within ten days after issuance....setting forth a complete explanation of your actions." Violators ignoring summonses shall "in the name of decency...be deemed unworthy of ever appearing on the SINA membership rolls...
...police grill two officials of the companies interested. They refuse to talk. Released, one of them commits suicide, and the other disappears and is presumed dead. But he is dangerously alive: a bomb in the hands of an almost insanely angry young man (Toshiro Mifune) who has sworn to avenge the murder of his father by the corporation. By a ruthless ruse-he has married the boss's daughter-the young man has placed himself inside the enemy's defenses. Can he get revenge before the corporation strikes? The suspense is terrific, but Kurosawa generates more than suspense...