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...Arrest of Christ" from Matthew 26 (see color), they carry a sense of doom and eternal sadness. The great initial letter illuminating title pages may contain a universe-birds, serpents, angels, men and monsters, each with their special place in the grand design. And within the text, the tiniest capital-the D in Dixerunt, the S in Sed -often turns into a surrealist creature with minuscule arms, tiny feet, and one great bulging...
Although Salvadoran supporters of Cuba's Fidel Castro were feeding the ferment, Lemus did not have to look beyond his borders for its cause. El Salvador, Latin America's tiniest country, has its second densest population (305 per sq. mi.). The average agricultural wage is 60? a day, and 20,000 are unemployed in the capital alone. As much as any other country in the hemisphere, El Salvador is in need of the social reforms proposed by the U.S. to the inter-American development conference in Bogota a fortnight...
...sugar bill died with the Congress. Ike was left with two possible recourses: 1) to invoke special emergency powers to permit him to cut off the sugar, or 2) to postpone any import of sugar whatsoever until New Year's Eve, thus allowing only the tiniest trickle of Dominican sugar into the country. If the Congress decided that either action was illegal, grumped Ike, "let them impeach...
...mankind's enemies, the tiniest and most elusive may also be the toughest : viruses. Despite recent breakthroughs, such as development of vaccines against polio, viruses still cause an immense amount of disease. There are no cures or even effective treatments for illnesses brought on by the smaller, typical viruses. These facts were emphasized last week as the American Public Health Association convened in Atlantic City, with a generous sprinkling of foreign experts to sound the keynote, "Public Health Is One World...
Albania is the tiniest (pop. 1,500,000), the poorest, and most backward of all Communist satellites in Europe, and the only one that has no common border with another state in the U.S.S.R.'s empire. It is thus the one part of the empire that...