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...leading a popularity contest in government circles today," says the Roman Catholic monthly Catholic Men in an editorial entitled "Good Old God." Many a politico who goes in for godly utterances is "inwardly feeling that such pious expressions and, in fact, God Himself and religion in general, are perfectly harmless . . . We are in favor of expressions of trust in God and don't want to appear cynical, but could it be that an appreciable number . . . are motivated by a naive sentiment that by shouting 'Lord, Lord' often enough, and long enough, we will have fulfilled our obligations...
...squad. The fur suit, famed for its expert Charlestoning, disappeared from a student's room, where its three guardians had left it while eating dinner. Appealing for aid from anyone who knows its whereabouts, they said that though the suit looked and felt like a tiger, its bite was harmless...
...seven years, the 1,200 patient citizens of the farming village of Ifs in Northwest France had put up with Headmaster Jacques Mériel of the town's new elementary school. After all, they told each other, he was a harmless, peaceful sort of man. They attributed his strange habits to the fact that he had once been run down by a Nazi truck. But last week the 46-year-old headmaster was the center of a sudden explosion of wrath. Reason: his incorrigible habit of falling asleep in class...
...jailed for eight months. Suspected of participating in another plot the next year, he successfully defied police by demanding that a general of equal rank be sent to arrest him. Later, kept under surveillance until Perón in a moment of clouded foresight, decided he was harmless...
Indonesia's handsome President Soekarno professes to have no fear of Communists. This feeling stems from the premature 1948 Communist rebellion, which Soekarno's troops handily broke. Two years ago, thinking it a harmless sop to the political left, Soekarno picked an acknowledged Marxist named Iwa Kusuma-sumantri as his Defense Minister...