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Sending Catholic children to public schools, argued Casey, will help "avoid most of the less pleasant by-products of separatism and inbreeding." Moreover, ''we will all be relieved of the financial strain that so distorts our devotions and parish programs. The parishes will not have to erect the enormous bingo signs that disfigure all the church lawns in certain areas, nor run a lot of novenas for palpably profit motives. Sunday Mass will not take on the quality of a fly trap designed to hold the people until three collections are taken...
...with the Hatch. So far, the shoot had been a creditable demonstration of space virtuosity. Arriving two minutes after impact, the helicopters found the Liberty Bell 7 standing erect in the water. For unexplained reasons, Grissom first radioed from the capsule that he was ready to leave, then said: "Give me three or four minutes. I will be ready for you." Actually, he spent 11 minutes inside, presumably checking instruments. As one helicopter circled the capsule in an effort to cut the capsule's antenna before attaching a cable, Grissom announced suddenly: "I am going to have to take...
...troops stormed back into the Philippines in 1944. He returned again in 1946 to watch as the U.S., after nearly 50 years of beneficent colonial tutelage, bestowed independence on the Philippines. Last week, to help Filipinos celebrate their 15th anniversary of freedom, the old soldier, a frail but erect 81, returned for what he himself admitted was a last "sentimental journey...
Moderate-Income Housing. To erect apartments for families too well off for low-rent public housing but too poor to own houses, FHA would insure 100%, 40-year, low-interest loans to limited and nonprofit groups. Private builders bitterly complain that the program will let FHA subsidize housing for an income group that can pay its own way. Under the program, charge its critics, housing authorities can build two-bedroom apartments to rent for as little as $90 a month-approximately $20 a month under the current market...
General Zeller seemed distracted, kept losing his place in his notes and finally sat down, despairingly putting a hand to his eyes as if saying to himself, "What imbecility! To risk my life for this!" General Challe, erect and unrepentant, spoke eloquently, if not always to the point. Challe thought his insurrection had been aimed at saving Algeria's Moslems from the clasp of the F.L.N. rebels...