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...guarantees religious freedom to the tiny minority of Spaniards-30,000 Protestants and 6,000 Jews-who were not born into Catholic families. It confirms the law of last year that relaxed government controls over the labor movement, including the right to strike, and all but destroys the already hollow shell of the Falangist Party. It also creates direct elections for one-fifth of the members of Parliament; the other four-fifths will continue to be selected by the government...
Mouths Agape. As promised, the Mountbatten committee went right to work, toured the biggest prisons and interviewed inmates as well as guards and wardens. It also studied a flood of recommendations from the public. One man proposed hollow cell bars filled under pressure with dye so that anyone trying to saw through them is sprayed an incriminating color. While it gave short shrift to such blue-sky schemes, the committee did suggest that Wormwood Scrubbs use closed-circuit television and more searchlights for better prisoner surveillance. The equipment was installed within a matter of days...
Maybe you light a candle to find something familiar. You can't Rock is rock, but in a cave it assumes strange shapes -- hollow tubes or bursts of crystals. The fish in pools of water are eyeless and are nearly transparent. Brown bats, squeaking as they zip around you, are the most common animals. Often they carry rabies...
Plop No. 3 feebly splashes a slavey with the sequins of movie stardom in some hollow mockery of the fame-and-success myth. Cinderella should...
After a party caucus last week, Barzel announced: "Erhard is and remains Chancellor. We want the public debate to stop." Barzel's pronouncement rang a little hollow, since he is among those angling for Erhard...