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...disappointment in not finding a home, a landlord immediately offered him an apartment. The local Catholic and Protestant clergy, meeting for the first time while preparing for the week, found the experience so agreeable that they have set up monthly conferences. And Lutheran officials are so cock-a-hoop over the results that they want to test their luck in larger communities. Next year a Faith in Life Dialogue is planned for Duluth, the year after for Minneapolis...
...guru, and obediently follows her in a ritual play-therapy. Through her he will be freed from his amnesia and vertigo--"You will be my healer," he pleads early in their friendship. And, indeed, the dizziness disappears when at last he climbs a steeple to steal the weather-cock she has so long cherished...
Sublime Chaos. By contrast with the cock-a-hoop mood of a few years back, most Russians now seem bitterly resigned to the shortages, discomforts and joyless conformity of life as they now know it. In the cities all winter, housewives have had to wait interminably in line for potatoes, macaroni, flour, coal and coarse, gritty brown bread; in some areas, where bread ran out, they have heeded Marie Antoinette's apocryphal advice and queued for cookies and cake instead. Asked recently how he thought 1964 would turn out, one Muscovite replied dryly: "Worse than 1963, but better than...
Nationality seems to make no difference at all. "Ga-ga-GAAK, ga-ga-GAAK" means the same thing to a Russian Orloff rooster, an Italian Leghorn, a Cornish cock or a New Hampshire Red. At the sound of the excited cackling, prudent poultry the world over get the same message: "Watch out! Danger...
Quarterback Jerry Welchel showed little of his passing skill because he had practically no opportunities to cock his arm. Coach Fusia disclosed that more than 16 passes had been called, but only six ever got into the air and just three were completed...