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...each visitor the Pope spoke a mellow word or two. To each he presented a lithographed photograph of himself, a black-and-silver rosary in a small olive-green packet bearing the Papal seal...
...sitting at the next table when I sat down-a fresh-faced young man. . . . He did not look a day older than 21, I decided. He just sat there looking at the wall opposite and, after a moment, produced a packet of cigarets and began to fumble in his pocket for a match. I struck my lighter and ... he smiled his thanks...
...started to outline a score for a threnody on war. He did more work during the blazing African summer, by autumn had a pocketful of penciled notes. The day before the tide turned at El Alamein, Lieut. Heming was killed in action. His mother found the notes in the packet of his personal things sent home...
...Swiss eyewitness said that the remaining population was being fed chiefly from army field kitchens at street corners. Bombed-out Germans who could get to a police station and register could claim an issue of six cigarets, a packet of sandwiches, 200 marks in emergency cash, new ration cards...
...rabbi reported: "On one occasion the 'mazooza' [a packet approximately four inches long, which contains a portion of the Scriptures and is nailed to the doorpost of the entrance to the congregation, and is regarded as a very sacred object] was found to be denied and smeared with manure. I, personally, saw that desecration and I myself wiped the surrounding area...