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...locker room has heard tales about B-girls-those satin cheats whose barstool love costs a fortune in fake champagne and broken promises. But last week the Senate's Permanent Investigations Subcommittee began a sober study: "What do you mean by 'B-drinking'?" asked pious Chairman John McClellan. In four days of outraged testimony, he learned the whole old story...
...Caudillo himself has mellowed, but he has lost none of the crafty skill or un derlying steel. Every coin of the nation still bears his image and the words. "Chief of Spain by the Grace of God." Puritani cal and pious, he sometimes prays for hours in his private chapel in Pardo pal ace before making major decisions ; to in duce night-loving, late-eating Spaniards to follow his own early-to-bed habit, he has ordered Madrid restaurants and cafes to stop serving food after midnight...
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...characterized past drives as "very pious and very snotty" and criticized the SGA for failing to sound out student opinion on the issue. "It's encouraging that for once we've had the opportunity to talk about it--I just hope someone was listening...
Someone from Assisi confronts St. Francis with a woman he had known carnally in his prevocational days. She is now as whirling mad as he is gently pious. The whole episode has the air of bogus revelation, as if it had been excerpted from a TV show called "Francis-This is Your Life...