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...combat heresy, the Holy Office ran the Inquisition, still edits the Index of Forbidden Books, preserves Catholic dogma from error, sets the terms of marriage for Catholics who wed non-Catholics. Operating under security rules that would do credit to the CIA, the Holy Office keeps its files under lock and key forever; anyone who spills its secrets is subject to automatic excommunication, revocable only by the Pope himself. One of three congregations over which John XXIII presides (the others: the Consistorial Congregation, the Congregation for the Oriental Church), the Holy Office is managed by Alfredo Cardinal Otta-viani...
Similarly, the number of students asking for dormitory space in Summer School has risen so that another, House will probably be left open during the summer--to the inconvenience and annoyance of students who will have to lock all their movable goods in closets to make way for the summer types. Another opportunity to ease the lot of the regular student is the option of placing the burden of the rising costs of running the Houses on the summer students--who are a considerable nuisance to the regular staff and students...
...away to serve half-a-dozen more years in tightly guarded Parkhurst Prison, Lila was on the point of tears. "This time," she said. "I am really afraid." Alfie's admirers had more confidence. Only last month, prison authorities found that Hinds had fixed the lock on his cell so that he could get out at will...
...passage of months took some of the sting out of the scandals, and last week Dilworth found his way out of another ticklish situation: he had just achieved a hiatus in a bitter 4½-month strike by the International Association of Machinists against Yale & Towne, lock manufacturers. Basking in this glow, Dilworth announced his forthcoming resignation as mayor, preparatory to declaring for Harrisburg next month...
...beautiful it was," he laments, "what a shame." He still keeps a lock of hair in an envelope), grew a thick mustache and blackened it with mascara, put on horn-rimmed glasses, stuffed a lump of metal in his right boot to force a limp and affected a severe facial...