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...behavior in court; for the cardinal had shown an attitude before his judges which seemed to contradict much of his earlier, passionate stubbornness on certain issues. This change, the Pope believed, was shown by the cardinal's "physical condition . . . which is indeed inexplicable except as a result of a secret influence which may not be publicly revealed."* He referred to the Cardinal in his ordeal: "A man endowed with the full vigor of a forceful nature suddenly appears so weak and mentally unbalanced...
...most striking new fact about Japan's farms is the just-finished land reform. Spurred by the U.S., pushed past Diet reactionaries by SCAP and often attacked as socialistic, it actually las had an individualist, conservative result...
...result of all the Page One squabble: attendance at concerts had picked up-perhaps, mused one symphonygoer, because other ticket holders thought they might get to see somebody wrap a cello around somebody else's neck...
...added 6,000,000 customers to their service, and have almost doubled the total amount of current they feed to all consumers. On top of that, industry has changed from three shifts a day, which spread the load, to the single shift, which concentrates it at one time. The result has been that most companies now have only a 4% emergency reserve of power...
...principle, in essence, was that the King's will was the will of God. A sample result: Henry's legal vengeance on St. Thomas of Canterbury, who had been martyred nearly 400 years before by courtiers of Henry II for upholding a different principle (the authority of Church against King). "He was not content with plundering [Canterbury's] shrine and conveying its wealth in 26 wagons to London, but he burnt the bones of the saint, mingled the ashes with earth, and dissipated them from the mouth of a cannon...