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There is danger here. One does not have to see the flame blackened shops looted in last month's rioting to realize it. Whatever the immediate cause of the rioting or the degree of its exploitation by Communists and others, what matters is that the riots are a symptom of the anger and deep uneasiness felt by millions of peasants, most of them underfed, underhoused and underpaid. After five years of hard work to carve out a new homeland, the Pakistanis face alarming economic ills. And rightly or wrongly, they blame India...
...Valente, 47, banned the press from the trial, in the interests of "public decency." Said Valente: "I have watched with growing uneasiness the mushrooming public anticipation of lurid and salacious details . . . The press of three continents was on hand to report the trial . . . Frankly, the reaction to this symptom of social illness is revolting nausea...
Roman Catholics in the U.S., laymen as well as priests, have lately worked up considerable scholarly interest in studying and discussing the theology of their church. The latest symptom of this interest is a magazine called Theology Digest, to be published three times a year, which appeared for the first time last week (first print order: 2,500 copies). Edited by Jesuit Father Gerald Van Ackeren, 36, who got his doctorate in theology at Rome's Gregorian University, the Digest hopes to introduce more readers to the stimulating but sometimes forbiddingly highbrow discussions of religion and philosophy which...
...with a "declared and established" course, his freedom is as limited as that of his colleagues in the Russian foreign service. Although such a concept of guilt by disagreement is alien to all Western diplomacy, the circumstances of the Vincent case has given the idea credence at once a symptom of the debility of State's morale and a cause of further demoralization...
...Faculty report was only one symptom of a growing dissatisfaction among the faculty with Eliot elective and hyperfree curriculum. The faculty opposition was led by Professor Lowell and when Eliot resigned in 1909, Lowell was chosen president...