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...hours later Hill came home from work, and Ballard ushered the whole family into the kitchen for dinner. They were all seated at a meal of canned soup, spaghetti, chili con carne, milk and coffee when Joseph and Schuer returned. "May I come in?" asked Joseph politely, standing in the kitchen doorway. Later the men played poker. They asked Betsy to join them, but she said that she played only canasta. The robbers told her they didn't know that game. Most of the time they kept the radio tuned to dance music, and they used no profanity...
There were arguments pro & con over who helps the church more-the active priest or the contemplative. Said the Right Rev. M. James Fox, Abbot of the Trappist monastery of Our Lady of Gethsemani, in Kentucky,* whose monks take a vow never to speak, "Silence does not lock the soul in a prison . . . Silence merely gives you a heart filled with Jesus." Countered Dom Aelred Graham, a Benedictine who writes and teaches, "It is possible to do more good and lose nothing of contemplation by creative and more active work for society...
...sentenced Wizard Hamilton, who had pleaded guilty, to four years in prison for conspiracy to assault. Fifteen of Hamilton's sheet-wearers got sentences averaging three years each, and 49 others were fined a total of $18,250. Even Hamilton's top lieutenant in Columbus County, Ex-Con stable Early Brooks, already sentenced to prison, was glad to see the wizard get it. "Somebody ought to be assigned to whip hell outa him," said Brooks. "And I'd like...
Everlasting Need. The citizens of Cassano were surprised when the real criminal spoke up, but only the dullest reader will be. On the other hand, Author Ber-gengruen does not seem noticeably con> cerned with the mystery side of his morality whodunit. His novel's many-faceted problem embraces, besides conscience, might v. right, personal sacrifice, guilt, love and faith...
...gazing into a crystal ball." Steele brought in a bunch of old Coca-Cola hands, set up a detailed method of cost accounting. He slashed costs by eliminating executive bonuses (he incorporated his own in his $96,000-a-year salary), whacking out dead wood, liquidating expensive sales con tracts, and cutting out the company's scholarships and art contests. He also lopped off a bottle-cap factory and a Cuban sugar plantation, because "our business is selling Pepsi." Steele won favor with bottlers with a new national ad campaign, including Faye Emerson on TV. As her neckline plunged...