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Outside Janssens' room are eight letter boxes, each containing the mail from the order's eight "assistancies." These letters, sometimes as many as 20,000 a day, are summarized paragraph by paragraph by secretaries, and annotated by the Assistant of the area involved before a final reply goes out. At 12:45, like every Jesuit throughout the world, Father Janssens does his 15-minute examination of conscience. After lunch, during which he sometimes waits on table for fellow Jesuits, he gets back to his desk. The day ends with a 10:15 visit to the chapel...
...Second paragraph: How the Queen reacted. She acknowledged the cheer graciously...
...sixth paragraph we get down to what horses are running...
Senate Southerners, accustomed to using the unlimited-debate rule to talk civil rights measures to death, got a bitter taste of their own by-the-rules medicine. Dusting off a rules paragraph that had lain idle for a decade, Senate Republicans used it last week to save the Administration's civil rights bill from the strangling clutches of the powerful Judiciary Committee, chaired by Mississippi's James 0. Eastland...
...with an editorial postmortem on the election results. "The mysterious and complicated and precious and precarious institution called democracy," argued fortnightly Maclean's, "once more has proved to be roughly as enthralling to the average voter as a case of fallen arches." Not until the second to last paragraph did the magazine reveal its own Achilles' heel. The doleful editorial had been written before election day, and was based on the assumption that the Liberal government would be reelected by a safe margin...