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Long, a white-haired, bespectacled man, also decided that the Lord had slyly been training him as an oracle. Born in Turkey, he had been a missionary in Syria, Egypt and Palestine, had come to Pasadena in 1932 to found a minuscule cult called Remnant of the Church of God. But despite these qualifications and the vision, sinners paid no particular attention to his prophecy-at least, until last...
Last month in Mexico City, Juan Ne grin and a remnant of the Spanish Cortes met again. Of the 474 deputies elected to the Cortes in Spain's last general elections (1936), 127 have died - mostly by execution. The Mexico City meeting, mustering 94 of the 98 deputies now living in Mexico, named Diego Martinez Barrio Provisional President of the Spanish Republic (TIME...
...looks as if humanity is moving inexorably toward Armageddon and into the limbo of forgotten things, an oblivion of its own making. Only the remnant now left of what Mr. Wilson called the "enlightened conscience of mankind" can save the situation. Unless prompt action is taken it will again be "too little and too late," and this time destiny plays for keeps...
...Land-based Army & Navy planes made their first coordinated attack with the flyers of Admiral William Halsey's Third Fleet, capping a week of unprecedented assault on the remnant of what was once the Imperial Japanese Navy. Among the Japanese casualties: the battleships Haruna (and no mistake, this time), Hyuga, Na gato...
From the East. Out of the dawn on July 10, his commander of Task Force 38, Vice Admiral John S. ("Jock") McCain, sent off a horde of fighters to strike at the remnant of Japan's home-based air power. McCain's airmen prayed that the Japs would come out and give them another red-letter day like the "Marianas Turkey Shoot" of June...