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...opposition has sliced away one-third of the U.M.W. appropriation for organizing and political action. Trbo-vich's charge that money is being misspent touched off a five-month audit of U.M.W. books by the Department of Labor. Though it is unfinished, the audit, according to department sources, should give the union a clean bill of health. The allegations, though, are one reason that the U.M.W. lost a recent organizing drive in Bell County, Ky. Says Miller...
...problem to vich all true philozophy must give an answer is ze question, 'Vat is ze meaning of Being as Zuch?' Or, in other vurds, 'Vy is there zomthing instead of nodthing...
Because the Catalan churches lay in a backward area, they remained almost unchanged through the centuries, were not rebuilt in later styles. In recent decades most of the frescoes and painted wood altar fronts have been moved into museums at Vich and Barcelona to stop further deterioration and to permit careful studies by art scholars. The best that is left of this all but forgotten chapter from the past has now been reproduced in oversized format (18 in. by 13 in.) in Spain, Romanesque Paintings, published by the New York Graphic Society ($16.50) as part of the UNESCO World...
...side; the church sees to it that feminine fashions contribute as little as possible to man's proclivity toward sin. But summertime sports like swimming and tennis present special perils, and in last week's Ecclesia, official organ of Catholic Action in Spain, Bishop Ramon Masnou of Vich warned priests of his diocese to be watchful. Wrote the bishop: "We wish to call special attention to dresses in female sports . . . Modesty must never be sacrificed in sport, nor should sport become a subterfuge for perverse exhibitionism. Bear this in mind when girls are swimming, skating, etc. The latter...
Died. Colonel General Vasily Vasilie-vich Ulrich, 62, who as presiding judge of the Moscow purge trials in the '305 teamed up with Public Prosecutor Andrei Vishinsky to doom scores of erstwhile comrades, won for himself the tag of "Stalin's Executioner," the reputation of having pronounced more death sentences than any other "jurist" alive; of undisclosed causes; in Moscow...