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...actress for 13 years, but never in anything that could be called a hit. In show business many people have been almost too eager to characterize her as a living dull, getting parts only because of her father. Bewitched has set her up on her own, albeit on a broom...
After six months of housecleaning, Brazil's revolutionary government last week gave up its power to purge-just as President Humberto Castello Branco had promised it would. The bristles in Castello Branco's broom were two articles in the sweeping Institutional Act decreed by the revolutionaries after they deposed leftist President João Goulart last April. Under Article 10, which was in effect for two months, the government could revoke for ten years the political rights of anyone judged guilty of subversion or corruption; under Article 7, lasting six months, it could fire or retire any government...
...dispute is brought before the A.A.A., three arbitrators listen to both sides, study the evidence and pronounce judgment. If the evidence cannot be brought into the hearing room, the arbitrators go out to examine it on the spot. One panel spent hours in a warehouse poking through bundles of broom straw that the purchaser claimed had been ruined by rats...
...Gospel & the Broom...
Once upon a time, as I recall, there was a person who took a broom to the seashore to sweep back the tides. Imagining the hundreds of millions of persons who are filled with traditional Christmas spirit and thoughts, we think of Author Smit as a man with a broom...