Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SISTER BERNADETTE MARIE, SCMM...
Mainland Sabotage. Nonetheless, Chiang stands ready for any eventuality. The country's 600,000-man army is well trained and well equipped, and Chiang keeps 80,000 troops poised and battle-ready on Taiwan's sister islands of Quemoy and Matsu, which are still bombarded now and then by Communist shore batteries. His high-flying U-2s regularly overfly the mainland taking pictures of Red China's defenses. Nationalist agents still cross the Strait of Taiwan to infiltrate the mainland. Chiang's government claims that 40 anti-Communist incidents occurred on the mainland between March...
They made a slightly unlikely pair of jet-set Bedouins. Novelist Truman Capote, 42, took the road to Morocco with his old pal Princess Lee Radziwill, 34, Jackie Kennedy's sister. Though Lee's husband, Prince Stanislas Radziwill, had to stay behind in London, she and Truman were off for a vacation that will last, as Truman announced in his adenoidal purr, "as long as the country is interesting." Settling briefly at the new Rabat Hilton, Truman explained: "I came because Lee was here twice last year and she was so enthused. Lee as usual is riding...
More startling than Jacqueline Grennan's decision to become a laywoman is her proposal to laicize Webster. Legally, the college is owned by a Missouri corporation, whose board of trustees is the general council of the Loretto Sisters. Pending approval from the Vatican's Congregation of Religious, the Sisters have agreed to turn over the control of Webster to a board of laymen. "It is my personal conviction," said ex-Sister Jacqueline, "that the very nature of higher education is opposed to juridical control by the church...
...Dowall), who wants to cloak the cipher of his existence with something or other, answers an advertisement for an astra khan coat. The man selling the coat is a criminal dandy (Brian Bedford) of homosexual bent who tyrannizes over his two colleagues, a bizarre, dress-alike brother and sister known as The Heavenly Twins. Diabolic purists who love crime for crime's sake, the three want a fall guy to take the rap on a diamond heist. When the circumstantial evidence is finally planted on the waiter, he bursts into hysterical laughter and ardently proclaims his guilt...