Word: com
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...have a point, but Katzenbach stood fast. Defending his decision to send registrars to only two of the 82 counties in Mississippi, where the rate of Negro registration is the lowest in the South (6.7% v. 23% for runner-up Alabama), Katzenbach said: "There have been some signs of com pliance in Mississippi lately, and we didn't want to kill...
Georgia Democrat Richard Russell, chairman of the Armed Services Com mittee: "The West has made about every conceivable blunder in Viet Nam since the time the fighting started over there. But there isn't a way out just now. We are deeply committed, and it's been a growing commitment. We can't leave now without breaking our word, and that would be worst...
...priest in order to receive absolution. In Germany, some theologians feel that frequent confession is no longer necessary, on the theory that most Catholics hardly ever commit a sin serious enough to justify it. Catholics, they say, should be free to rely on their own consciences and receive Com munion without first making a confession. Normally, Catholic children today make their first confession and receive their first Communion at the age of seven or eight; in some cases in Germany children are allowed to go to Communion at five or six, but they do not make their first confession until...
...self-martyrdom, and in 19 other plays depicted the conflict of good and evil in a jarring mixture of scatological slang and 16th century classicism, in 1962 causing near riots when the most scandalous of all, The Ant in the Body, was consecrated at France's venerable Comédie-Française; of cancer; in Paris...
Britain's government leaders com plained that the "gnomes of Zurich" gravely aggravated last November's pound crisis by coldly dumping pounds...