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Last week a Chilean Government bureau brought the wrath of the Catholic press on its head by bravely pointing this out. In the first issue of the 970-page Anuario D.I.C., a sort of Chilean World Almanac, the Direction Informaciones y Cultura denied the popular belief that Chile was 90% Catholic. Its religious breakdown: Freethinkers, 70%; Catholics, 25%; Protestants and others, 5%. The Anurio's explantation: only 25% of the so-called Catholics were regular churchgoers, and therefore "true Catholics...
...Seattle. Sulphuric acid spilled over the edge of a smelter vat in Tacoma, made workmen run like rabbits,, The quake lasted for 45 minutes, but was only noticeable for two. Nobody was killed. Seismologists explained that the quake had come from the ocean floor, 200 miles west. But almanac readers knew better. That was the day a B-29 dropped a practice explosive bomb at Bikini Atoll. The earth had twitched slightly, like a horse plagued...
Ward McAllister had dreamed up the Four Hundred in the first place, but in the Almanac the name McAllister nowhere appeared...
Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., long banished from the Register, was now embraced by the Almanac...
Like the Register's policy makers, the Almanac's refused to explain choices. But they were not, they insisted, motivated by any "sense of snobbishness or feeling of superiority...