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...recent gathering of the clergy of Toulouse, peppery, 83-year-old Cardinal Saliège pointed a blunt finger at a group of young priests sitting in the back of the room. "Nous vous avons à l'oeil, mes gaillards [We're keeping an eye on you, my lads]!" he warned them...
...international publishing busi ness, with four International editions which carry the news of the world and the advertisements of free enterprise to our readers over seas. These editions print the same news as the U.S. edition, of course - but they print different advertisements. Consequently, while you often see the mes sages of foreign busi nesses in our U.S. edition, you do not see the advertisements of U.S. business which run in our International editions...
...took off for Rome, looked at the statues and pictures, and came back a fighting antiquary. Brutus and the Horatii were his idols; he painted them to resemble the antique sculpture he admired, posturing naked and grand in a cool world. To complaints about la nudité de mes héros, David replied simply and smugly that they had always been represented that way in the Golden...
...days later, the apprentice's sweater is found washed up on the beach. The townspeople, surex that Grimes has committed another murder, head offstage on a new hunt, chanting now near, now far: "Peter Gri-imes ... Peter Gri-mes." As Peter appears on stage, clearly out of his mind, the orchestra is silent; the only sound to be heard is an eerie foghorn. His friend Balstrode warns him to "sail out . . . then sink the boat," before the mob finds him, and Peter Grimes obeys...
...dozen smaller projects have been completed. The "Lázaro Cárdenas," fourth largest earthen dam in the world, held back the waters of the Nazas River ia September 1944, during the worst flood in 53 years, protected the cities of Torreón, Lerdo and Gómes Palacio in the plains of northern Mexico. This more than compensated for the $16 million the dam has cost to date. On the 280,000 acres it irrigates live 35,000 peasant families...