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Verbum Sap. In San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, after he had caused Masima Siena, 23, to faint by saying "no" when asked if he took her to be his lawful wedded wife, Bridegroom Urbano Biase, 29, explained that it was only a warning to keep Masima in line, returned to the church and went through with the ceremony...
Yours is the finest hatchet job I have ever read on two of the best maverick minds that any one state ever succeeded in corralling ...Why make it appear criminal for Morse to use that "brilliant mind" which you praise with faint damns? Why sanctify party loyalty over intelligence...
...intend to show how the ex-Minister's policemen arrested wealthy Chinese and threatened to deport them "for helping the Viet Minh" unless the Chinese paid blackmail. Diem wants to use the trial to herald a big new campaign against corruption in demoralized South Viet Nam. There are faint signs that his austere new nationalism is beginning to catch an apathetic public's fancy. But Diem still has far to go and little time...
...best treatment for a faint is to do nothing, but leave the victim lying flat, advised Dr. Alfred Soffer in Today's Health. A faint, he explained, is a cure in itself-nature's way of boosting circulation to the heart and brain when blood is being drained to other parts of the body in a complex reaction to fright, shame, drugs or pain...
...scientists warn that the new system is still young, but they suspect that it has great possibilities. One possibility: "picture-on-the-wall" television. A faint image projected by a small TV set would be amplified by electric current supplied to a flat screen. Other possibilities are in photography (taking pictures with very dim light) and in devices for "seeing in the dark...