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...anti-Stalinist regime, and with a new agreement for cooperation between church and state (TIME, Dec. 17), PAX was frantically holding meetings, breaking itself up into splinter groups with new names, trying to get its members into other organizations. Explained Radio Warsaw: "PAX, disguising itself, would like to regain the confidence of the community." That confidence had never really existed...
Alongside Pasche sat Corry Riet, 31, of Zaandam, The Netherlands, who was paralyzed by polio at the age of five. When it became clear that she would never regain the use of her arms, Corry Riet learned to hold a brush with her teeth, took lessons from a landscapist. She makes a comfortable income from her paintings, calendars and greeting cards...
They continue to resist not only because they are brave, but because they have to. The workers' councils, the citizens' groups, the army units dare not let the Kadar regime regain full control of the country. They cannot overthrow the Red Army, but their strength lies in the fact that neither can the Russians mine coal in army tanks. Some kind of agreed or understood armistice between workers' council and regime, protecting the Hungarians against reprisals in return for a resumption of stability, is what the rebels must continue to fight for. One thing...
...second obstacle to effective civil defense. First aid and other survival training courses are ignored. Civic organizations for civil defense die of unpopularity. Yet beneath apparent complacency lies the ferment called "atomic jitters." The disease is not incurable. Its remedy is a civil defense program designed to regain public interest and co-ordinate public activity at all levels...
...National Committee authorized National Chairman Paul H. Butler to appoint the group, in response to pressure from big-city leaders who felt that the party was losing ground in its traditionally strong areas. They maintained that only by pushing a vigorous legislative program in Congress could the party regain this support. Senate majority leader Lyndon Johnson has opposed this course, contending that the Democrats should offer no program until President Eisenhower has produced one, which they might then seek to change or replace...