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After a visit to Spain, Major General Charles Willoughby (ret.), longtime intelligence officer for General MacArthur, announced that he would rent an apartment and live in Madrid. Said he: "I feel much safer in Madrid behind the Pyrenees than in Paris behind the Rhine...
When the Devil comes up in conversation, modern Christians have a tendency to tuck up their skirts and scurry to the shelter of safer doctrinal topics like the brotherhood of man or the Sermon on the Mount. In a book called Satan (Sheed & Ward; $5.50), newly published in the U.S., a group of scholars under the editorship of Father Bruno de Jesus-Marie, a French Carmelite, have made a frontal attack on the question of what the Devil is and what he should mean to a Christian...
...explanation. Britain is short of labor: nothing the nationalized coal industry has done (e.g., higher wages, social security) can induce more Britons to work in the pits. Full employment is partly to blame: coal miners' sons don't want to work underground when there are safer, cleaner jobs above...
...many-cratered, 5,620-ft. monster named Hibok-Hibok (Visayan for hot and bubbling), had gotten angry-once in 1948, again in 1950 when 68 islanders were killed. Always Hibok-Hibok gave warning-two or three days of ominous huffing & puffing that gave Camiguenos time to retreat to safer reaches of the island, or even to take boats to Mindanao, seven miles to the south...
...next forty-five minutes Nixon had the newsmen rifling madly through the nine-page handout, trying to keep up with him as he jumped from page to page. "Just stick to the release," I was told afterwards, "it's safer that...