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...board in the country while studying for exams. They tramp along a road in stifling heat until they encounter the hanged sparrow. As if it were a signal, they check into the next house with a guest sign. There are no other guests, only a retired bank manager named Leo Wojtys, his wife, his daughter and her new husband and, for that obligatory grace note, a deformed servant...
...household is aghast, but it is fair to assume that one member is not mystified at all. Shortly afterward, Leo corners Witold and lets him know that he is quite aware of the young man's obsession with his daughter-and quite satisfied. As it happens, behind his cherished respectability he himself has led a secret phantasy life. "Bergtitbits and bergpenalties awarded by the High Court," he crows. "Bergpunishments inflicted by the local penal authorities and bergtitbits awarded by the department of caresses and delights...
...Authority is very pleased with the new cars," said MBTA general manager Leo J. Cusick. "And incidentally, these cars are the first aluminum transit cars to be built in United States...
...invited them to turn their creative energy loose on any topic at all-except a product. In the weeks since, TIME'S readers have heard about patriotism, battered children, truth, tradition, poverty, blindness, language and protest. The agencies report that the response has been abundant and heartwarming. Leo Burnett Co. Inc.'s ad on environment and pollution resulted in requests for 30,000 reprints. After urging the silent citizen to speak out, Dancer-Fitzgerald-Sample Inc. received a flood of congratulations, including one note allowing that "maybe Madison Avenue isn't all bad after...
Worst of all, suggested a Roman Catholic observer at the meeting, the N.C.C. may be losing its constituency. Dutch Catholic Priest Leo G. M. Alting von Geusau, secretary-general of Rome's International Documentation Center, which does research for the council, warned the delegates that institutional ecumenism is becoming the province of "a smaller and smaller group of ecumenists, meeting and meeting again in endless commissions, running behind the facts." In the meantime, as von Geusau and other critics noted, the young and the disaffected are moving away from churchly institutions, seeking to rediscover the radical meaning...