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...voters to polling places in a shuttle of buses. In the Rialto district, they assembled strange processions of the elderly and infirm who looked as if they could scarcely make it to the nearest park bench, much less to the ballot box. There was even a Spanish nun, a fervent supporter of Prime Minister Jack Lynch, who appeared at one Dublin polling place to vote for the local Fianna Fáil candidate. But she was challenged and told she could not vote. "All right," she declared. "If I can't vote for him, I'll pray...
Some accounts credit St. Thomas with converting Maloula to Christianity. Others ascribe the conversion to a passing hermit, a fervent Christian who was horrified to discover lascivious goings-on at a Roman bath in the village and cursed the place, thereby causing the bath to collapse over the heads of the libidinous bathers. A church now stands on the site of the baths...
...wounded American soldiers. He had never thought about the people dying over there; he was genuinely moved. This human reaction aid not cause a reassessment of policy, however. On the contrary. Bundy's emotion was channeled into hatred of the enemy." It made him a more fervent supporter of the existing unemotional policies...
...Fervent love and intense pain...
...designated capital crimes. Last month, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court rejected an effort by Philadelphia Prosecutor Arlen Specter and his assistant Richard Sprague to show that the state's death penalty has not in fact been imposed arbitrarily. Sprague, who is one of the nation's most fervent supporters of capital punishment and is prosecuting the Yablonski mine union murder cases (TIME, July 17), based his argument on a study he has made of Pennsylvania's condemned men. Poor, black or uneducated defendants, he said, are actually slightly less likely than others to receive death sentences. The court...