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Last week Cardinal Silva Henriquez called upon Chile to speed up the pace of reform. "Social injustice and poverty," he said, "foster Communism. It is urgent to act quickly. We are at the brink. If we do not produce legal and immediate solutions, others can break in and take our place. It is necessary to be Christian with social justice, with charity, with brotherhood. We must not be reactionaries...
Flying Snoopers. The $7,000,000 haul was the greatest train robbery in history, and far surpassed the 1950 Brink's truck robbery in Boston, which netted $2,775,000. In Australia, the Sydney Daily Telegraph editorialized: "It proves that the homeland of Dick Turpin and Charlie Peace is not decadent. Britons may not admit they are proud, but in private many are thinking, 'For they are jolly good felons...
Part of South Viet Nam's closely knit Mandarin aristocracy, the President's family commands little popular support but firmly dominates the country's political and economic structure. For all its faults, it also represents an order of sorts in a place that has been on the brink of chaos for decades. The remarkable quartet of Diem's brothers...
...empire came to the brink and how it was saved are told engagingly and often suspensefully in this final volume of a trilogy by Historians Nevins and Hill...
Shaw, who was on the brink of fame as a playwright when they married in 1898, had already forsworn meat and liquor; after their marriage, he claimed, he also gave up sex. He had remained a virgin until he was 29 and even thereafter, said one disenchanted lady, "seemed to have no wish for and even to fear passion." Charlotte, for her part, had had a series of platonic love affairs, but invariably backed away when her suitors pressed too closely. She was deeply stirred by only three men in her life, and all three were extravagant egotists who demanded...