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...part of its wages not in money but in leisure, most particularly in the leisure that is taken at the place of employment." Prime Minister Harold Wilson noted the same thing with a Yorkshireman's economy of speech. "Sheer damn laziness," he said, is Britain's besetting sin, and the nation's need is "a full day's work for a full...
...attack that sin, which is precisely the one that the agency is supposed to commit, Fulbright called USIA Chief Leonard Marks before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. The subject was junkets-with which Senators are familiar-specifically USIA payment for the transportation of 30 to 35 Asian and European newsmen to Viet Nam. Fretted Fulbright: "Doesn't this point to a possible conflict of interest that might compromise the objectivity newspapers owe their readers...
...Problems of Sexuality. After it was published as a book, Abbe Oraison was summoned to the Holy Office at the Vatican, where, he recalls, Alfredo Cardinal Ottaviani and Giuseppe Cardinal Pizzardo counseled him that the best methods for preserving sexual purity are a good diet and fear of sin. As Abbé Oraison wrote in Le Monde: "Twice Cardinal Pizzardo repeated to me, 'For purity-fright, spaghetti and beans.' " Then Cardinal Ottaviani told the French priest that his book had been placed on the Index of Prohibited Books...
...casket, she in a green-and-white one. With hundreds of curiosity seekers gawking and jostling in a rolling, palm-fringed cemetery in West Palm Beach, mother and son were buried with Catholic rites. Charlie had obviously been deranged, said the Whitmans' priest, and was not responsible for the sin of murder and therefore eligible for burial in hallowed ground...
...irreverent cariocas put it, not even Jesus Christ, whose statue, arms outstretched, gazes down on Rio from Corcovado, would be able to do much about Brazil's endemic sin of inflation. In one 31-month period, the cost of living soared an astronomical 340%, and in 1964 alone, the year that free-spending João Goulart was thrown out, it was heading up 150%. Yet when President Humberto Castello Branco took over, he confidently vowed to achieve stability in just two years...