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...tell you how I enjoyed your article "When to Confess [Sept. 3]." I am 14 and have been raised a Roman Catholic, but I haven't been to confession for a year and a half, purely because I no longer believe in it. The idea that the Vatican disapproves of waiting for the sacrament of penance till a child is nine or ten burns me up. I know the definition of sin; yet I have no sense of sin. I ask God for forgiveness at least once a week for all my sins, consciously or unconsciously committed. When...
Richard A. Sprague, the first assistant district attorney in Philadelphia, got Vealey to confess and then won convictions of Martin and Gilly. But Sprague was determined to find out who had organized the murders. He got Gilly's wife to implicate her father, a minor U.M.W. official named Silous Huddleston. Huddleston in turn said that the plot had been conceived in Washington, and that his boss in the scheme had been Albert Pass, a member of the U.M.W.'s international executive board...
...Richards turned out to be a highly entertaining talker, and although I must still confess that I have not read any of his books and know nothing about his theories I have no doubt that his reputation is well deserved, Eventually be began to talk about a friend of his, whose grandmother used to recite peotry when she wanted to make him sleep. The conversation had touched on Sir Walter Scott's chapter headings, or something of the sort, and I.A. Richards was discussing the transformations folk ballads undergo...
...must be a sad fate for any upstanding American corporation first to be harried into making large (and illegal) political donations and then to be forced to confess on threat of prosecution. Nonetheless, Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox has a little list of these corporate donors, all of which could face fines of up to $5,000, for making illegal contributions to the 1972 Republican national campaign...
Since Cox has indicated that he might be lenient with those that confess, the shamefaced corporations have been stepping forward-Gulf Oil Corp...