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During the London blitz, Barrister Cyril Conner retained a serene confidence in his country's future. It was his daughter's future that concerned him. "Promise me something," he asked the smashing little redhead. "Promise me you'll never marry a saxophonist from Budapest...
...recites a syllabus of papal errors, from the famous fallibilities of St. Peter to the "high-handed" decrees of Pope Paul. The whole idea of papal authority, Kűng says, was ambiguous as late as Augustine and not absolute until Aquinas, who leaned unwittingly on forged quotations from Cyril's Book of Treasures and other false texts. Belief in infallibility evolved later, and has been defined dogma only since Vatican Council I a century ago (see box). Drawing on Catholic historians, Kűng claims that infallibility as propounded by Vatican I had less to do with...
...built on public land out into the bay as part of a twelve-acre, $140 million project including a hotel and passenger-ship terminal. The tower did not lack enthusiastic backers. Construction workers saw it in terms of new jobs. To longshoremen and San Francisco Port Commission President Cyril Magnin, it would help to revitalize the now declining port. Mayor Joseph Alioto favored the building because it would also swell municipal tax rolls. Yet last week the city's board of supervisors voted the tower down, and Mayor Alioto is unlikely to use his veto...
Then there was the question of whether the tower could legally be built on landfill. California's outgoing State Attorney General Thomas Lynch implied in a ruling that an office building-but not a hotel-would violate a law that limits such projects to "water-oriented uses." Cyril Magnin raised an eyebrow: "What's so much more water-oriented about a hotel than an office, except maybe you can take a bath there...
...eighth book, Cyril Northcote Parkinson continues to tell people-especially businessmen-what they already know. This time he offers the Law of Delay, which holds that "delay is the deadliest form of denial." Let the man who never postponed a decision until too late cast the first stone...