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...Franc Question. Abbé Pierre bought the barrack buildings of an old prisoner-of-war camp on credit and set them up in vacant lots. Here he charged 15? for a night's lodging, took in 5,000 people a year and showed a profit. But more money was needed to build more houses, and when an ex-ragpicker suggested collecting junk and selling it, Abbé Pierre promptly organized such an efficient scavenger system that they soon needed a truck...
...appointment of another acting chairman postpones once again the choice of a permanent clergyman to fill the vacant post at Memorial Church and the newly created University professorship. President Pusey announced in September that a permanent chairman will not be chosen "in the near future,"--at least not until a Dean of the Divinity School has been elected...
Toward the end of the trial, the bishop began to wilt, his ruddy face gone sallow, his eyes vacant behind the thick lenses. As the prosecutor summed up-about the missing typewriter, the assumed name, the charwoman's scrap of paper, the fingerprints-the bishop clutched his chair, and glanced nervously from judge to defense counsel. Finally, last week, it was over, and all Sweden breathed a sigh of relief...
...room mansion had been vacant for 20 years. The door was locked when he got there. Moss and mildew flourished on the paneled walls. Water seeping from a blocked gutter had rotted the floors. Fungus grew on ancient banisters. Ivy, snaking through broken windowpanes, writhed in green profusion. Thousands of dead bees littered every corner. Lady Dunbar, erstwhile tidy Maryland housewife, held up a picture frame from which the canvas had long since rotted. "A portrait," she remarked wryly, peering through it, "of the wife of the present baronet...
...that Prío had openly courted trouble. Ever since Dictator Fulgencio Batista booted him out of Cuba, the well-heeled former President has been hard at work organizing a revolutionary comeback from his Miami mansion. The current charge grew out of a police raid last December on a vacant filling station at Mamaroneck, N.Y., near Long Island Sound. Stumbling on an impressive cache of grenades, bazooka shells and explosives, the cops arrested four men. One, a New York munitions dealer, said that the arms had been bought by a Cuban named José Duarte for the account of Carlos...