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Another controversy that Audience's second issue provoked centers around a thirteenth century Provencal poem by Girault de Bornelh. Graduate student Stephen Orgel claims that Norman Shapiro's recent translation in "a Cambridge literary journal," leaves out the final, and crucial, stanza. To his amusing remarks on the poem's translations Orgel adds, "as a pendant to Mr. Shapiro's translation," his own spirited rendering...
...varsity copped seven out of the top ten places, with only Tufts managing to insert two runners and M.I.T., one. Brown's top man, Becker, wound up in thirteenth place...
...Popular Nacionalista was holding a meeting. The police announced discovery of an arms cache and two cases of railway sabotage. Unidentified gunmen speeding by in a car fired a dozen shots at two federal policemen guarding the residence of U.S. Ambassador Albert Nufer. It was reported to be the thirteenth mysterious attack on policemen in four weeks...
Answer: I Corinthians, the whole thirteenth chapter, beginning with, "Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass or tinkling cymbal" and ending with "and now abideth faith, hope, and charity, these three; but the greaterst of them is charity...
Hungary's Deputy Premier and Agriculture Minister. Ranking only thirteenth in the Politburo in 1951, his rise has been spectacular and he is now the youngest of the top Communist leaders. In his premiership speech, Hegedus laid down the new Moscow line for freedom-bordering Hungary: 1) tighter discipline for factory workers, 2) speedier Sovietization of agriculture, 3) mutual-assistance treaties with the Soviet Union and satellites. To back him up, Finance Minister Karoly Olt announced a 15% increase in police and security measures, and increased Hungary's defense budget. Toughness would be the ticket...