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...List for their efforts. If the SWP wins its suit, a historic precedent will have been established guaranteeing the right of plaintiffs to secure government documents on police state-type actions, a right that will be used by many to secure evidence that would otherwise remain in the presidential sanctorum...

Author: By Albert Cassorla, | Title: The Watergate Nobody Knows | 3/26/1974 | See Source »

...horrified by the publicity surrounding the case and by the lack of cooperation from U.S. legal authorities. The spectacle of Clifford and Edith blithely appearing on television was especially galling when she, a Swiss citizen, had been charged with-and had even admitted-that she violated the Swiss sanctum sanctorum, its banking system...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME : The Fabulous Hoax of Clifford Irving | 2/21/1972 | See Source »

...contains one article on the Bollandists' current favorite topic. St. Martin of Tours, plus others on such minutiae as an early Swedish manuscript dealing with Persian saints and a papyrus describing the life of St. Phileas. Eventually, this material may find its way into the Bollandists' Acta Sanctorum of which only 69 volumes have been published in the 360 years since Dutch Jesuit Heribert Rosweyde undertook to write accurate hagiographies. But no volume of the Acta series has been released since 1940, and Bollandist Father Joseph van der Straeten admits that "no one can say when our next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Roman Catholics: A Who's Who of Saints | 5/31/1963 | See Source »

Cutting his way through the murky gloom of the Sanctum Sanctorum, he stumbled over the wizened oriental as he approached his Ouija board, and he watched the stylus as the message of the gods poured through it. The moving finger wrote thus and having writ, moved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Disciple Amazes Sage of the Age | 11/5/1949 | See Source »

...last Sattidy at a cozy party given by the CRIMSON for in "wartime correspondents." Sat in the Sanetum Sanctorum Seat of Honor, and drank gallops of the punchiest punch Snowball over concocted. Parking our coast in the newsroom made us feel right home-sick for Ye Daily News and Yo Columbia Spectator office. Ah, College Days...

Author: By M. J. Roth, | Title: Straight Dope | 4/2/1943 | See Source »

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