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...past Potentate, picked up a hot fraternal tip: by decree of the Imperial Potentate of the Mystic Shrine of North America, two Detroit officers, Illustrious Potentate Herbert E. Payne Jr. and Chief Rabban J. Murray Brown, had been suspended for unfraternal conduct. By Shrine standards, their sins were grievous: Payne had "mishandled a recent Temple business session"; and Brown had allowed "unauthorized persons to sign contracts for the annual Shrine circus" in Detroit...
...money. Macmillan's bland response: Britain would follow Ghana's economic needs "with sympathetic interest." He added an oblique comment on Nkrumah's performance the day before: "If we cannot cooperate, but sit down in opposite camps shouting slogans at each other, we shall all suffer grievous harm...
...Fancy Colleges. What really ails African higher education is a grievous shortage of primary and secondary schools...
...grievous error seems to have crept into the thinking of the American people. This involves the idea that all we need for success is to get organized and wait for someone to "articulate a purpose" for us. This hen-and-chickens kind of thinking led the Germans into a disastrous war under the leadership of an articulate, power-mad Hitler...
...good thing that in Connecticut and Massachusetts women should be subject to grievous suffering because Roman Catholic pressure refuses to allow even doctors to give information on birth control even to non-Catholics.* It was not a good thing for Christians to persecute and even burn heretics; it is not a good thing when Communism, in its dogmatic-religious aspect, persecutes and even executes deviationists...