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...said one young priest. "The problem is vital, not only for the church in Spain but for Spain itself. Authoritarian governments do not solve problems. They merely postpone them." And what will happen if the church continues its old course? "The lid may blow off and carry the scandal sky-high...
...match it looked like Harvard was going to snap Yale's 17-game unbeaten streak. The Crimson's top man, Brian McGuinn, grabbed a one-hole lead on All-American Ned Snyder with a par on the 17th. But McGuinn three-putted the last green for a sky-high seven and lost the 530-yard 18th hole to the Eli captain's bogey to set up a playoff...
Boston College, with an 840 total, and Boston University, with 847, finished well ahead of the pack. The Crimson struggled home with a sky-high score of 870, an average of 87 strokes per round...
...deputy squad leader of the Machine Gun Company. In September, after returning from a visit to his family, he showed some dissatisfaction with the grain situation, and said: "Some people are saying in China there once appeared a Sun Yat-sen and the grain was piled sky-high." Twenty days later he was reported to the Deputy Political Director for "reactionary remarks." Fearing "some kind of punishment," Chen used a Thompson gun to kill himself...
...bust he had bought 45 years before. He decided to buy it for the Metropolitan "so that it would get the glory it deserves." To hide his hand, Fowles sent his stepson to do his bidding; the Met sent a junior curator. All that kept the price from going sky-high was that each party thought that the final bid had been his; only later did Fowles learn that the auctioneer had awarded the sculpture...