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...himself this is a matter of no consequence. Last week, when a reverent follower told an audience that they had come to "obtain Rajaji's blessing" and to see "India's next Prime Minister," the old leader snatched the mike and testily disavowed the compliment. Said he: "This movement is not to put me into power. It is to put you into power. The people want a change...
...Judge Sacotte's opinion, the call girls "have one feature in common: an extraordinary facility in spending money. As a consequence, their legitimate profession -if they have one-never earns them enough. Hence the necessity to obtain extra money through a partner of the moment, announced by telephone and furnished with discretion." The Tolerance. Sacotte also finds that call girls often drop out of the business and then take it up again when in need of extra income. Thus, reasons the judge, there is more hope of eventually winning a call girl back to respectable life than...
...letter said its six signers had written to Trujillo to suggest a plan to end "the excesses, dry the tears, heal the wounds." In return, "we have promised special pledges in order to obtain from God the boon that none of the members of the [Trujillo] family shall ever experience the sufferings that today afflict the hearts of so many." Thunderstruck by open Catholic opposition, churchgoers left early Masses, talked nervously in church courtyards, returned to hear the letter read again at the next Mass. Collection plates overflowed with cash and donations of jewelry...
...must have these dormitories, whether on the yards or not," he told members of the Metropolitan Affairs Committee hearing arguments about the possible sale of the property. "If Harvard cannot obtain the yards, we will have to purchase other land...
...Transit Authority does not move and the University is able to obtain the property, a "platform" might be constructed over the train-storage area and the new Houses built atop this. Reynolds pointed out that no definite plans had been made for the yard area, and that apartment buildings, a large garage, a bank, and offices might be constructed in addition to the Houses...