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This lackey's lackey is Brennan. With cruel precision, Kowalski gives Brennan his last assignment-on the Feast of Corpus Christi. Assignment: to kill a mysterious ex-Communist who was known during the Spanish civil war as El Carnicero (The Butcher). Brennan cannot approach confession with this last act-to-be on his soul. In the end, he knifes his victim only to discover that he killed the wrong...
...nine years. In another month Sweden's Prime Minister had toppled, bank clerks were committing suicide, and King Gustaf's brother, a heavy Kreuger investor, had to move to humbler lodgings. In May, Pope Pius XI gave the Kreuger legend its epitaph by issuing an encyclical, Caritate Christi Compulsi (Urged by the Charity of Christ), the gist of which was: "The i love of money is the root of all evils...
...Corpus Christi, Texas...
...offshore rigs are fabricated. At intervals, veinlike side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their fields and float oil barges back from the wells. Virtually every big company has fields, tank farms, refineries along its banks clear down to Corpus Christi-Texas Co., Standard Oil of N.J., Superior Oil, Magnolia, Kerr-McGee Pure Oil, Cities Service, Shell Oil, Gulf, Humble...
...afterward the news was all over Italy. Quivering with rage, Italy's chief Communist organ L'Unita reprinted the village priest's proclamation under the sneering three-column headline, CHRIST UNDER ARREST, and accused Don Camillo of making Jesus his "private property" and of treating "Corpus Christi like a batch of spaghetti payable in return for the Christian Democrats' vote." Against these fulminations, Don Camillo found himself supported and praised by the Vatican's newspaper Osservatore Romano. Don Camillo, it said, correctly "deemed it improper that solemn homage to Christ should be rendered 'with...