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...some Catholics, and suggestions for a bureaucratic reform have been sent in by non-Italian bishops for inclusion on the agenda of the Vatican Council. One of the most common requests : more freedom for diocesan bishops to adapt church practices to the needs of their people. One of the sharpest attacks in recent years came from Italian Jesuit Riccardo Lombardi (TIME, Feb. 2), who urged that Curia officials step down after reaching a mandatory retirement age, deplored the splendiferous costumes of cardinals and bishops, recommended that Curia officials be chosen from the best men available in the world, rather than...
...opening gam bit, queen's sacrifice, knight rooked, mate. The same game, more or less, was played in Pillow Talk, an amusing and lucrative farce turned out in 1959 by the same scriptwriter, Stanley Shapiro, a onetime gag writer for Fred Allen who is now one of the sharpest word boys in the movie business. But this time the interiors are even more giltily decorative, the fashions more spectacularly inconsequintial, the colors more hormone-creamy, the lines more jerky-smirky ("A kiss is like lighting a stove. It doesn't prove that you can cook"). Edie Adams...
...AGRICULTURE. Kennedy promised to submit to Congress "a new, comprehensive farm program ... to prevent chaos in the Sixties with a program of common sense," but offered no details of the program. "The revolution on our own countryside," said the President, "stands in the sharpest contrast to the repeated farm failures of the Communist nations and is a source of pride to us all." But, warned Kennedy, "without new, realistic measures," increasing farm production "will some day swamp our farmers and our taxpayers in a national scandal or a farm depression...
...thriving parliamentary tradition for 80 years before it was choked by the militarists in the '30s. The between-the-lines message was to Japanese radicals who are impatient with the legal niceties of democracy, which they regard merely as imposed by the U.S. occupation. One of his sharpest arguments: to students who yearn for both neutrality and disarmament, Reischauer points out that the two do not go together: "To be neutral, you must be prepared to be highly militarized, like Sweden or Switzerland...
...victories and defeated top-ranked Ohio State, 70-65, for the N.C.A.A. championship. Massive (6 ft. 9 in., 235 Ibs.) Paul Hogue, a rugged rebounder, is back at center, no longer fouls out of important games. Lanky (6 ft. 6 in.) Forward Fred Dierking prides himself on possessing the sharpest elbows in the college game. Forward Dale Heidotting (6 ft. 8 in.). Guards Tom Thacker and Tony Yates are all juniors. Besides, says Head Coach Ed Jucker, "I like to have a good bench...