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...every week it flung another wet arm around him." As boredom grows, faith recedes, and guilt closes in on Bert like a summer fog. He sits before his typewriter starting sentences he never finishes ("Where pagans go wrong is that . . ."; "Christmas, as Chesterton once put it . . ."). The rejection slips pile up. Whenever Bert tries to explain his trial of faith to family and friends, they go into "hiding somewhere behind tight, patient smiles." Sobbing with vexation, he shouts, "Matty, Dave, I want to have this thing out right now! This whole goddamn thing!" But they are not listening. Finally...
...really astute Filene's Basement shopper never purchases anything until it has reached the bottom plateau of markdowns. To accomplish this, one simply pushes the article to the bottom of the pile, the back of the rack, etc., and then watches the article until it has reached the desired price...
...half-hour briefing. At Tamky, under a faded tent, he was told about a search-and-clear operation designed to flush the Viet Cong out of hill country 20 miles away. Then he visited a field post that had been under fire only the day before. Inspecting a pile of Viet Cong weapons, McNamara spied a 57-mm. recoilless rifle, remarked, "I suppose that's Chinese," was embarrassed to learn that it was an American model originally captured from government troops. McNamara also interrogated two guerrilla prisoners...
Last week, with the ball on Cleveland's 29, Jimmy took a handoff from Quarterback Frank Ryan and cracked into the Dallas line. A pile-up-and a sigh of relief from the stands. It became a groan as Jimmy popped out the other side of the pile and thundered 71 yds. into the end zone. Before the day was out, dazed Dallas fans saw him sprint 62 yds. for another TD and riddle the Cowboy defenses for 232 yds. in 20 carries as Cleveland coasted to its sec ond straight victory, 41-24. "If we had Jimmy Brown...
...their ornate garb. Such ostentation, the archbishop warned, "separates us from the workers and the poor. Let us end once and for all the impression of a bishop-prince, residing in a palace, isolated from his clergy." At the closing Mass of the council, Camara suggested, the bishops should pile their gold and silver pectoral crosses at the feet of the Pope and receive plain wooden ones from him in exchange. The archbishop may get at least part of his wish: the schema on the clergy has a chapter dealing with the right use of churchly goods...