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COLOMBIA Censorship as Usual One of President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla's proudest acts, soon after he came to power two years ago, was to relax the strict press controls administered by his unpopular predecessor, dictatorial President Laureano Gomez. On one occasion, in the presence of a band of visiting foreign newsmen, Rojas Pinilla turned to the government's chief censor with a grin and forthwith abolished all censorship of outgoing news cables. But last week, no longer so proud, no longer so sure of himself, President Rojas cracked down on the press again...
...sampling of Peking's press and radio comment showed that Red China was already picturing the Little Two parley as a pathway towards its traditional objectives: 1) surrender of Formosa, 2) membership for Red China in the U.N., 3) "strict fulfillment of the 1954 Geneva treaty on Indo-China," meaning that South Viet Nam must be surrendered in July 1956 by the device of rigged and improperly supervised elections. Communist propagandists suggested that if the U.S. persisted in stalling, Red China might have to make a show of force against the vulnerable offshore islands...
...club, the young executive finds there are strict dos and don'ts. In some, second, third, and fourth-rank clubs, a member can get away with making a direct pitch for business, talk shop either on the greens or in the locker room. But at front-rank clubs, the hustler is shunned like the plague. The good clubs are hard to get into and expensive (up to $6,000 for the initiation fee alone), and most members resent an obvious mixing of business with pleasure...
Edith was permitted to continue her intellectual work whenever she could find a gap in the strict Carmelite routine. She produced extensive spiritual and philosophical writings that were remarkable even though, in the Catholic view, they suffered from certain defects inherent in her background (she sometimes confused theology with philosophy, sensing with reasoning). The tension between the philosopher and the Carmelite was resolved "by continual growth in holiness rather than the transformation of the philosopher into a theologian...
...were married in City Hall. But Miss Ruth had ideas about marriage. One of them was that marriage was supposed to be fatal to a woman's career, so we kept it a secret. Nine months later Miss Ruth told a Kansas City newspaper woman about it in strict confidence, and the news landed on the A.P. wire." The headline, confusing Shawn with an esthetic dancer named Swan: RUTH ST. DENIS MARRIES THE MOST BEAUTIFUL MAN IN THE WORLD. It haunted Shawn for years...