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...middle of a gloomy, unheated factory building in Yokohama, a group of Japanese and American businessmen solemnly lined up last week behind a white-robed Shinto priest and faced a bright orange-colored power shovel. Waving branches of the sakaki (sacred tree) before a makeshift altar, the priest intoned: "On this felicitous occasion, we pray for the continued magnanimity of the gods in showing favor to this undertaking...
...Columbia, Washington's Chelan County P.U.D. hopes to build a nine-unit $234,340,000 dam that will produce 600,000 kw. of power. The Grant County P.U.D. has already asked Congress to authorize an even bigger project: an estimated $400 million dam at the Columbia's Priest Rapids that will produce...
Torture. Masked to protect relatives behind the Iron Curtain, a Roman Catholic priest testified that in early 1941 the Communist police arrested him and many other Lithuanians for failing to vote in a phony election. In the prison "the other inmates and I were subjected to brutish and utterly inhuman treatment . . . My head was slammed against the wall [until] I collapsed into unconsciousness. My jailers alternated torture and interrogation. All told, I was questioned 18 nights from 10 o'clock until 4 in the morning. During these periods I was always stripped naked and brutally beaten. [One stretch...
...insists on writing all his speeches himself (about 150 a year), in his own fine hand. He has a research and secretarial staff and a personal theologian, an Irish priest named Michael Browne, but, as in the days when he was a "library mouse," the Pope loves to do his own research. He will not trust a secretary to verify a quotation. Unlike his predecessor (who locked it in a closet), Pius XII uses his telephone constantly; he has a one-way line-no one can dial the Pope...
Gautier's classic Clarimonde (first published in 1888) could pass for an up-to-date case history of psychological spookery but for the fact that it is drenched with old-fashioned ideas. A young seminarist is bowed before the altar, taking his priestly vows, when he glimpses a green-eyed courtesan of "supernatural beauty." Thenceforth, his life takes on a Jekyll-and-Hyde cast: by day he is a humble village priest, by night "the Lord Romuald," lover of Clarimonde, living in an Italian palace amid such pomp and splendor that "I do not believe that since Satan fell...