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...Algerian question both menaces and ensures the stability of De Gaulle's regime. Such old pols as Antoine Pinay, Guy Mollet and ex-President Vincent Auriol are eager to take over control of the state-but not until the Algerian time bomb has either exploded under De Gaulle or been defused...
...solemn ceremonies of installing abbots are likely to be used more and more in the nation's future. Monasteries are relative latecomers to the institutional life of the Catholic Church in the U.S.; the first Benedictine monastery, St. Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., is only 115 years old. But now they are bursting with new vitality-and new affluence. In all, there are more than 2,000 American Benedictines, almost one-sixth of the worldwide strength of that order, which is far and away the leading branch of Christian monasticism. The non-Benedictine Trappists have established eight...
...Benedictine life to suit American ways. More active and outgoing than their European counterparts, U.S. monasteries operate everything from mailorder cheese businesses to country missions to diocesan seminaries; each Sunday their monks say Mass in hundreds of U.S. churches. "The fundamental difference," says Father Rembert Weakland of St. Vincent's Archabbey, "is that in Europe the people go to the monastery. In the U.S. the monastery goes out to the people...
...teachers than farmers, U.S. Benedictines operate more than 50 seminaries, colleges and high schools, many (such as the Portsmouth Priory School near Newport, R.I.) with national reputations. Monasteries make ends meet through a variety of self-sustaining work: one abbey in Indiana has its own coal mine; St. Vincent's bakes its own bread; individual monks are expert at almost everything from nuclear physics to organ music...
...Gershwin toiled for 16 hours a day over An American in Paris. Promptly at 10 a.m. every Sunday, Hemingway rumbled in to sip his customary tank of whisky sours. The Dolly Sisters made it a port of call, and so did Bill Tilden, Knute Rockne, Jimmy Walker, Lou Gehrig, Vincent Sheean, Jack Dempsey, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald. To casual travelers, and more importantly to American expatriates in the '20s and early '30s, Harry's New York Bar in Paris was a singular institution-a home away from home, a living shrine to U.S. booze, and the only...