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...large crowd had gathered in front of the Squash Courts. An ambulance was parked at the curb, and two attendants were carrying out the body. The Chief stopped the stretcher before it reached the ambulance and lifted one corner of the sheet. Biff blanched. The corpse was an unusually livid color and the face was twisted into a macabre grimace. Bundie swallowed hard and followed the Chief into the building...
From Anger to Action. There was a brief burst of scattered applause, but most of the 1,950 prelates present were clearly stunned. Angrily they poured down from their tiered seats to the floor of St. Peter's. Albert Cardinal Meyer of Chicago, normally calm and introverted, was livid with rage. He and most other bishops knew that the "many fathers" consisted of only 120 or so conservatives, mostly Italian, and that they had had plenty of time to consider the declaration; the conservative-oriented theological commission had approved the final draft. "Let's not stand here talking...
...most important, what is gained by saying one painting is "the best"? Asger Jorn, Denmark's painter of livid, vivid abstraction, caused a bit of a tempest this year by refusing to accept a proffered Guggenheim award. "I get my money by selling paintings," he said, "and I think it is more healthy than by getting prizes. If you establish that one artist is better than another one, it is a question of convention-and you have to have a common measure, whereas the whole value of art is exactly that common measure doesn't exist...
...natural habitat on European cliffs, the rock dove (Columba livid), with its grey coat, white rump and iridescent head and neck, is an attractive bird. Bred and trained by man, it has become a valiant message carrier, famed for its speed and homing instinct. It has also become a multicolored pest, appealing mainly to snapshooting tourists and aging lonelyhearts who get solace of a sort from feeding the flocks...
Understandable Exasperation. On the Senate floor, Oregon Democrat Wayne Morse was livid. "We are reaching one of the most serious crises in U.S.Latin American relations in a quarter of a century," he cried. "We are either going to support constitutional government, or we are going to lose any following that we can hope to obtain by throwing billions of dollars into Latin America." Alaska Democrat Ernest Gruening angrily suggested canceling all military aid (some $700 million since World War II) to prevent its use as "an instrument for the overthrow of established democracies...