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...Long after the paper was printed, Trib typesetters had to set the full text in type anyway to satisfy the "bogus" type requirement (TIME, Nov. 24, 1952) of the typographical union's featherbedding rules...
Maudlin or Morbid. Pope turned a searing blast of his flamethrower on the out-and-out secular as well as the bogus Christian. "If you give nearly eighty percent of your time to entertainment and two percent to religion, the implications of that fact are not lost on the public ... If religious programs are often maudlin, a high percentage of the other programs is simply morbid...
...pulpit in the country. A newly formed underground association distributed pamphlets urging Catholics to display their loyalty to the faith by wearing badges of Roman Catholic organizations and bowing to priests "proudly and ostentatiously." In Buenos Aires and Córdoba, gangs of Roman Catholic youths beat up several bogus priests-apparently government agents in clerical garb-who were roaming the streets creating disturbances and yelling insults at women...
Instead, Sturm reported Gardy's proposition to agents of the U.S. Military Intelligence Division, who manufactured a bogus report on the Order of Battle Section and instructed Sturm to give it to Gardy...
...reverse its own political committee's verdict on West New Guinea. The Dutch thereby won a victory over Indonesia, which had sought to raise a bogus cry of colonialism (TIME, Dec. 13). A switch in sentiment by half a dozen Latin American nations made the Dutch victory possible...