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...enforcing the giving of a tithe, no declaration of income would be required, no punishment would be exacted of those who failed to comply. Said Msgr. Hughes: "I don't like this business of charging that we're totalitarian." Father Weigand contributed to the ambiguous blur by announcing that if tithing was "not optional," it was not compulsory, either. Anyway, the "carnival atmosphere" will be ended at St. Joseph's for 1961, at least. A single exception: the Saturday night bingo games in the church's community center. Almost all the bingo players, Father Weigand noted...
...these tools, the U.S. Army Medical Service added an important contribution. The Pentagon this week announced development of a suitcase-sized, portable X-ray unit that weighs only 85 Ibs. (v. ordinary half-ton hospital X-ray machines) and operates at such high speed that it will not blur film during chest X rays even if the patient is breathing normally...
Americans have an added problem in defending their ideals to the rest of the world, Pettingill maintained, because of racial and cultural ties with Europe. New nations expect a positive stand against colonialism. Our political ties with their former colonial rulers blur the line between the United States and France. The African nations feel that we must add to our praises of freedom a strong concrete stand for Algerian independence. In their eyes, he declared, the United States must "take the blame for the actions of Europe if we do not take an anti-European stand...
...from the boredom of hearing the same basic speech, watching the same gestures for weeks on end). But a considerable group of journalists become closely associated with just one campaign, marking the struggle for objectivity all the more difficult. As one put it, "The whole show becomes an oblong blur...
...many of the Collected Poems are baffling, partly because Durrell is at no great pains to let the reader into the recesses of his feeling, partly because, as in his novels, he frequently lets the richness of his language blur meaning entirely, and sometimes because his line of thought (especially in the longer poems) becomes fuzzy or even careless. But he can throw a sharp defining dart...