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Burial Cloth. At the entrance to the Civic Center waved a giant banner: WELCOME TO THE EUCHARISTIC CONGRESS. COME AND SEE THE FACE OF JESUS ON HIS BURIAL CLOTH. Inside, pilgrims viewed photos of the Holy Shroud of Turin, the purported burial cloth on which Jesus' image appears. Near by there were booths offering clerical clothing and T shirts, booths advocating sainthood for Italian Missionary Samuel Mazzuchelli and publicizing struggling Catholic colleges...
...mountain climbers understand the pale, mud-smeared troglodytes whose curious passion it is to worm their way down through the clammy dark into the deepest and narrowest capillaries of caves. These low adventurers are brave, but their squirmy feats seem inglorious. If, slithering downward, one of them carried a banner, its strange device might well read !IROISLECXE...
...Today the notion that only the crazy are sane in a world gone mad would hardly rattle an espresso cup. It was not so in Sabatini's time. By a singular stroke of intuition, he created an existentialist hero almost a decade before Jean-Paul Sartre raised the banner of existentialism...
...economic policy. The Californian has given exceptionally forceful voice to a persistent strain of Republican thought-and put unremitting pressure on President Ford to follow a rigidly conservative line. Reagan's followers will undoubtedly keep up that pressure throughout the campaign, if Ford carries the Republican banner. And if Reagan defies the odds and walks off with the nomination, the nation will hear a set of economic views that have rarely been voiced with such rigor...
...Thomas Aquinas Murphy has warned that labor contracts that raise costs without improving productivity are "fateful mortgages upon our economic future," and Woodcock has spoken portentously of "the final countdown" to bargaining. Yet even the sloganeering has lacked fire. For example, a U.A.W. convention early this year displayed a banner demanding REASONABLE WAGE INCREASES-hardly the battle cry of hot-eyed militants...