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Each grey morning, while the laughter of nuns echoes from a nearby courtyard, it becomes clearer that awful deeds are imminent. One day the girl takes a rabbit's severed head to work in her purse. The real and the unreal merge, and soon her human victims appear. The first is a suitor (John Fraser) whose conventional acts of gallantry lead to a gruesome end. Later an indignant landlord (played with mordant, bumbling humor by Patrick Wymark) comes to collect his rent and lingers to try his luck. Right up to the grisly climax, the audience seldom wonders what...
...Please accept our heartiest congratulations on a reporting job well done and on putting the Kashmir problem in much clearer perspective...
...steadily weighed against the Union's purpose, which fluctuated as wildly as the war itself along a course clearer perhaps to the historian than to the participant: "The nation had not been driven to war by its desire to free the slaves; instead it had been driven to free the slaves by its desire to win the war." In 1861, Lincoln agreed with Congress that "the Constitution could never, in all time, be changed in such a way as to permit interference with the institution of slavery." Four years later, he was pressing the 13th Amendment on the nation...
...hand to present awards to Pickering and two other Mariner scientists.* For cautious experts, the best of the photographs neither proved nor precluded the possible existence of life on Mars, although the planet's rugged terrain seemed hardly hospitable enough for the hardiest of bacteria. The pictures were clearer and sharper than anyone had expected. At least one of them -No. 11 - was described by Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists as "one of the most remarkable scientific photographs...
Some church leaders believe that politically activist clerics should make it clearer that when they take a stand on Viet Nam they do so as private citizens-and not as spokesmen and surrogates for Christianity. But the church should speak out with a united voice, suggests Dr. Tex S. Sample of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, when the war creates issues-such as the torture of prisoners, or bombing of civilian centers-"in which human values are at stake. We are as capable of judging human values as politicians are." At such times, adds Benjamin Seaver of the American Friends...