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...priest is performing the duties of Cardinal Aloysius Stepinac, whom Tito's Communists imprisoned for five years, and who has been restricted to his home village since 1951. At a quiet service, Father Franjo Seper, 49, a tall, thin Zagreb parish priest, was consecrated archbishop and coadjutor sedi datu (coadjutor given to the see). The new title serves notice that the church regards the imprisoned Stepinac as its true cardinal-archbishop...
...press. Louisiana's Representative F. Edward Hebert warned darkly: "Unless something is done to curb that section of the press which holds in ridicule the keystone of democracy . . . our whole system of Government is going to collapse." Alabama's Senator John H. Bankhead accused disrespectful newspapers of "sedi-tious conduct," cried for a Justice Department investigation...
This dramatic cataclysm was prosaically described last week in an effort to show that it was true. Its describer was Dr. Alexander Du Toit of Johannesburg who, defending the widely held ''displacement hypothesis," brought into court recent studies of fossils, glacial records and sedi mentary rocks of southern lands now separated by water. So much alike are these records at corresponding stages, urged Dr. Du Toit, that they must have been deposited in one undivided land. But the geological record of the southern hemisphere as a whole is utterly different from that of the northern-which would show...