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Trinity Saved. Persecution was the normal expectation of the Copts for over a thousand years. When St. Mark first brought his gospel to Egypt, Christianity spread rapidly among the Egyptian fellahin, downtrodden descendants of the pyramid builders who took readily to a clear-cut doctrine of life-after-death. At first they had to flee into fortress-like monasteries to escape the persecutions of Hellenic Alexandria and the desert barbarians. Later pagan Alexandria too was converted, rivaled Rome as a Christian capital...
Store directors did themselves proud too with a splurge of fancy displays. Windows and shelves were decked with Georgian grapefruit, imported bananas, chocolates wrapped in tinfoil, gaily-colored candy in ribbon-bound boxes. One big window held nothing but a pyramid of Libby's canned pineapple. But the crowds made mostly for the bread counters...
Clerks packed up documents for the return. Lights burned late as administrators wrestled with the problems of transport and relief, and with the larger problem of adjusting a nation to a new era. At the top of the pyramid of state moved the alert, taut, indefatigable Generalissimo, the first architect of victory and now the first hope of peace...
Artillery fire had damaged several gravestones between Keats's and the pyramid of Caius Cestius, a stone's throw away. Other greats in the same cemetery: Shelley, Trelawny, John Addington Symonds. Keats's name goes unmentioned on his own gravestone ("Here lies one whose name was writ in water"), but is inscribed on that of his painter-friend Severn, buried by his side...
...when it is received by the real owner, the stockholder-makes no sense; 2) because it is unfair to tax millions of small stockholders at 40% and up on their corporate income when their in dividual tax bracket is much lower; 3) because high corporation taxes raise, some times pyramid, the cost of goods; tend to keep down wages, make investment so unattractive that much employment dies stillborn out of "tax considerations." To prevent use of corporations to avoid personal taxes, Ruml proposes a 16% tax on undistributed profits...