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Whatever their real object, the "spies for peace" triggered a full-scale Scotland Yard investigation and brought Prime Minister Harold Macmillan scurrying back from his country home to London for consultation with his Cabinet. Nevertheless, Canon John Collins, C.N.D. chairman and preceptor of St. Paul's Cathedral, simpered on TV that most marchers "treated it rather as a joke." His merriment was not shared by James Cameron, a crusading journalist who has been a prominent figure in C.N.D. since its inception. Cameron conceded sadly that the ban-the-bomb marches had "become a vehicle for too many secondary...
...contrasts this situation with Princeton, where preceptorials put students and tutor on a more even footing: neither side wears robes, and "if the preceptor is poor there are bright student" he says "to carry the discussion...
Three of the four compositions on the program were each highlights, and this suggests how remarkable the concert was. Understandably, the Bach Society Orchestra playing Bach's fourth Klavier concerto in A major was a fine show. Luise Vosgerchian, soloist and preceptor of music in the Department of Music, seized the concerto firmly in hand and gave it an energetic and clear performance. Miss Vosgerchian and conductor Layton worked together very closely; the taperings at the ends of phrases and changes in dynamics, for example, fitted together like fine-tolerance metal work. Although the second movement (Larghettoo) may have been...
...undertook, but his vision was so bright and his energy so great that he never seemed to notice the defeats and frustrations that would have submerged an ordinary man. Fifth century Daniel the Stylite lived atop a pillar near the Bos-phorus for 33 years, and, like his famed preceptor Simeon, controlled with his prestige the emperors and patriarchs in the world below...
...Monaco's Prince Rainier III and Hollywood's Princess Grace rode forth from their palace to a Fourth of July Mass in the local cathedral, later watched a drill put on by the Cadets of the Prince, a boys' cadre sponsored by Rainier's spiritual preceptor and matchmaker, Father Francis Tucker of Wilmington, Del. Meanwhile, palace prattlers reported that Bishop Gilles Barthe of Monaco had been so bold as to ask the Prince if Grace is perchance in a family way. Rainier's careful reply: "Not for the moment...