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...with her mother as chaperone. When he called (always at noontime), Jacqueline sent her mother to the movies. Three years ago he found himself "getting a bit frail" and tried to break off the liaison. Jacqueline objected; there were telephone calls, and a somewhat ruffled Sir Strati had to confess to his wife to prevent Jacqueline's turning up while a birthday party for his grandchildren was in progress...
...because he himself had served in Nagy's revolutionary government. But Boss Khrushchev ruled in favor of a show trial. The charge: treason. Nagy, befuddled and brainwashed after long internment at Sinaia, Rumania, has been transferred to Budapest's Fo Utca prison, is reportedly adjudged ready to "confess...
...fixture of his life. When his foster sister died, Verlaine went to pieces, changed from a gaily dressed, monocled dandy into a shabby, unshaven lout. This made him feel remorseful, and, rushing into a church after an absinthe bout, he hammered on the confessional box and shouted: "I must confess! I must receive absolution...
Occasion for the argument: the Church Meeting of the state Lutheran church of Sweden, considering a proposal to permit women ministers. Two years ago the Swedish Parliament recommended ordination of women (at the time, one diehard stormed that he would never confess* to a female because women were notoriously unable to hold their tongues...
...slumped in red-faced solemnity on the platform as delegates hurled all his old arguments back at him. A Lanarkshire mother pleaded that Nye save her two sons from the leukemia that fallout would bring. Frank Cousins himself rose to confess unashamedly that he saw this issue in terms of his six-year-old daughter and favored abolishing the bomb. When Bevan finally took the floor to answer, the hall stirred. "I have probably made more speeches to more people condemning the bomb than anyone else at this conference," he began. "I am as strongly against it as ever...