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...Alcohol Sin? The All-Drys opened up with a learned distillation of the theology of antialcoholism. "Drunkenness," cried Belgian All-Dry Abbe Maas in summation, "is a mortal sin." Then the medicine men got down to figures. In Sweden, said Gunnar Nelker, ten times as many alcoholics get divorces as nonalcoholics. The industrial accident rate in Germany, rumbled Professor Otto Graf, is three times as high among heavy drinkers as it is among abstainers. But it was the French Half-Wrets who proved to be the experts on alcoholism. "Instead of returning to his squalid home," said Professor Charles Foulen...
...newspaper, printing not only first-rate world news but daily dispatches from correspondents in scores of Colombian cities, became a national newspaper, read from the Caribbean coast to the borders of Ecuador. El Tiempo was Liberal, independent and peace-minded. As such, it was and is a mortal threat to Colombia's little clique of ruling Conservative extremists, who hold power under a 33-month-old state of siege...
Dulles: I think first we have got to be clear that we cannot carry on with the old policies that got us into this mortal peril. The Democratic platform says America must not deviate from these policies. I say, unless we deviate from those policies, we are lost . . . The first thing I would do would be to shift from a purely defensive policy to a psychological offensive, a liberation policy, which will try to give hope and a resistance mood within the Soviet empire...
...talk to Stalin if he thought it would do any good, but nothing is negotiable as long as the Soviet Union uses "subversion, bribery, corruption [and] threat of force . . . to try to destroy our form of government." He believes the loss of Western Europe would put the U.S. "in mortal danger," and favors a more dynamic U.S. foreign policy...
...head of his security police, Nespoli, began the manhunt full of confidence. At the end of three days he was stumped, and in mortal fear that his failure to find the murderer would mean, literally, his own head. Reluctantly he tried to pin the crime on an innocent scapegoat, a halfwitted girl. When that failed, it was anybody's head. Cassano became a city of pointing fingers...