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...quiet the people, Bishop Piero stood up in the cathedral pulpit. Said he: "I beg you Orvietans ... we live in dire times . . . There is so much suffering . . . in the prisons . . . hospitals . . . streets . . . homes . . . behind the Iron Curtain that has been lowered across Europe. For the sake of our brothers beyond, one of whom saw faith's light because of our corporal, don't be divided by quarrels. Make the sacrifice, however great it may seem, for the sake of our persecuted brothers ... The Bohemian College in Rome has asked us for the honor of being the reliquary...
...corresponding secretary of Stamm-Tisch Hinterhaus, a luncheon club meeting regularly at Luchow's, I have been authorized to refute Mr. Mencken's dire prediction that civilization is coming to an end with the aforementioned sale. To the contrary ... the only change noticed recently is that the portion of Coconut Cream Pie (regularly served on Fridays since time immemorial) is a quarter of an inch larger...
Formosa's modern, Japanese-built power plants, badly battered by U.S. wartime bombing and in dire need of spare parts and trained personnel, are doing their best to supply the island's rich and potentially profitable industries (sugar, aluminum, cement and coal). But Formosa's industries are painfully short of capital. Many Formosan businessmen blame many of their financial troubles on SCAP, whose red-taped regulations prevent virtually all trade between Japan and Formosa...
...hard birth. At the constitutional convention there were fights over county boundaries, dire threats against Alfalfa Bill. Afraid that the Republican governor of the Oklahoma territory would tamper with the new state's constitution, Bill-walked off with the original document in his pocket. To guard Murray and his papers friends formed a brigade of 5,000 citizens, dubbed themselves the Squirrel Rifles. Everyone said the brigade was a joke, but it was a joke with a point. No one fooled with Alfalfa Bill. The state was born pretty much along the lines which Bill had planned...
...Fantastic Cost. What would War III be like? Bush finds no ready answer. It would not be as easy as some optimists like to think, nor as dire as others predict. "For a long time to come," at least, there would not be fleets of fast and high-flying intercontinental bombers. The atom bomb would be dropped, but it is not the abso lute weapon it has been said to be. It is not even as devastating as popularly supposed, says Bush. The costs of manufacturing and of delivering it would be so vast that they might well exhaust...