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...alone recently. "What am I supposed to do when this thing finally goes-join the militia?" said the disgruntled driver of a 1953 Cadillac taxi. Cubans are leary of the Coca-Cola they drink-it has been known to contain cockroach eggs; in bars they pointedly order Coke "sin bacilli" (without germs). "My father would be very sad to see this," said the son of the late president of Coca-Cola in Cuba...
...Rome. Sophia was snubbed by some of Italy's foremost politicians, and the affair had to be canceled. Left-Wing Socialist Pietro Nenni, unhappy that Sophia's sister married a Mussolini, sent his regrets; Entertainment Minister Alberto Folchi, aware that Sophia is living in sin with Producer Carlo Ponti (since bigamy charges brought against Ponti forced them to disavow their 1957 marriage early this year), developed a diplomatic cold. Finally, 1961's best actress had to accept her Oscar at a small reception in her own apartment. "I didn't expect a state reception," said...
...Catholics swal lowed the order in silence. Not so Una Gaillot. The wife of a factory clerk and the head of a small racist outfit called Save Our Nation, Inc., she has two sons attending a Catholic high school, and holds an unshakable conviction that racial integration is a sin against God. She helped set up the picket lines around Rummel's residence, issued a flurry of mimeographed essays arguing that segre gation is authorized in the Bible. One scriptural text she cited was Genesis 21, which describes how Sara asks Abraham to cast out from his house...
...soul which, like a butterfly, flutters away above the grave and is still preserved somewhere, in order to live on immortally? That is not the Christian hope. "I believe in the resurrection of the body." Body in the Bible is quite simply man, man, moreover, under the sign of sin. And to this man it is said, Thou shalt rise again. Resurrection means not the continuation of life, but life's completion. "We shall be changed" ( I Corinthians 15); which does not mean that a quite different life begins, but that "this corruptible must put on incorruption." Then...