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...first time that the rulers of Communist Russia had accepted an invitation to attend the U.S. Independence Day party. Ambassador Bohlen was away in Washington, briefing President Eisenhower for the Geneva conference, so Khrushchev bore down on Walter N. Walmsley Jr., Bohlen's deputy, and loudly announced: "I have a little speech to make...
Piercing the hollow, curving south facade were 27 deep-set, rectangular openings, decorated by stained glass designed by Le Corbusier. The broad church door also bore a symbolic painting by Le Corbusier, done in enamel. Capping it all was a swelling, sausage-roll roof from which extends a mighty spout to carry rain water to a concrete tank. Said Abbé Besançon, one of Ronchamp's priests: the church is "ungodly and ungainly...
...Utah one day last week, another brave-talking killer named Don Jesse Neal was led out from Utah State Prison at sunrise to take the second best that Utah could give. He was strapped into a wooden office chair that bore 17 notches to signify that 17 other men had been shot in it.* "Do I have to wear this thing? I have nothing to be ashamed of," said Don Jesse Neal as officers fitted a black hood over his head, a 2-in., heart-shaped black target to his white shirt. "I am innocent; I have no malice against...
Gathering some of his closest associates around him, Perón consolidated his gains in a radio speech. It was sweetly reasonable in tone, but both his words and his voice were strong and confident. He bore down hard on an effective point: the rebels' disregard for the lives of bystanders in their attempt at assassination by aerial bombing. (Agreed a chauffeur: "If they'd had one man with guts, they'd have assassinated Perón openly.") "In the face of such infamy, disloyalty and treason," Perón said sadly...
Searching Look. Armed with his newfound theology, Father Witcutt was sent to a slum parish in Birmingham. For a while all went well. Then in a lecture on the Reformation .to the Catholic Evidence Guild he bore down too heavily on the corruption of the medieval Catholic clergy. "I was summoned to interview the Vicar-General, who told me, with a searching look, that I was being transferred to 'the farthest outpost of the diocese...