Word: dominicans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the best in the world. American whites are being killed at more than twice the rate of their Canadian and Australian brothers. The U.S. homicide rate is three times that of Scotland, six times that of England, Ireland and Wales. Among the more violent homicidal nations: the Dominican Republic (7.5 per 100,000), Guatemala (4.2), Ceylon (3.9), Finland (3.3). No reliable figures are available on homicides behind the Iron Curtain...
Gypsy Blessing. But as dedication day approached, excitement steadily mounted in Ronchamp. A steady stream of famous visitors had replaced the villagers' early doubts with growing pride. Said Dominican Father Regamey, whose order sponsored Matisse's chapel at Vence: "Le Corbusier's modulated chapel in reinforced concrete is hard and soft at the same time, like the Gospels." Swiss Architect Hermann Bauer praised it as "more like sculpture than a work of architecture." A band of gypsies, adept at mind reading, decided they liked the new chapel "because of its pure form and white color." Even...
Aging Hungarian Temptress (turned Manhattan jeweler) Jolie Gabor sadly announced the disengagement of her daughter, heartbreaking Cinemactress Zsa Zsa Gabor, from heartbreaking Dominican Playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, freshly disengaged from his fourth wife, Five and Dime Heiress Barbara Hutton. In tragic tones, Mama Gabor explained: "In Paris now they are having their last farewell. She can't marry Rubi, the darling boy, because he's so jealous." Then Mama grew more plausible: "Zsa Zsa will be a very big shot in Hollywood and in television. She would have to give that up to marry Rubi." Earlier in the week...
Divorced. Barbara Hutton, 42, five-and-dime millionairess who likes to stay indoors all day; by Porfirio Rubirosa, 46, Dominican playboy who likes the outdoors; after 16 months of marriage (all but 77 days of it in separation); on grounds of incompatibility; in Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic...
...hierarchy still had open and even somewhat divided minds on the subject, and the Copernicus-Galileo theory might have prevailed if disgruntled scholars and disputatious monks had not begun a muttering campaign against Galileo which forced the issue prematurely. Yet Galileo was held in such esteem that when a Dominican monk thundered that mathematics was of the Devil, and that mathematicians should be banished from Christian states, the preacher-general of the order apologized to Galileo by letter: "Unfortunately, I have to answer for all the idiocies that thirty or forty thousand brothers may and do actually commit...