Word: vestale
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...concern was simply to get a good shot of the Holy See at festival time. Cao Dai's Pope Pham Cong Tac was in Cambodian exile when Mankiewicz arrived, having deemed it wise to flee the country after some trouble with the government last year concerning his Vestal Virgins, but Vice Pope Bao The was more than glad to oblige...
...festival began, all was sweetness, light and color. The cameras ground away. Vestal Virgins, bishops, boy scouts and cardinals of both sexes thronged together in full ecclesiastic panoply on the great Square of the Universe. There were speeches and playlets and prayers. "Our dear Pope is not here," said Vice Pope Bao The, "but his spirit is among us." Then, quite suddenly, the crowd turned hostile...
...million U.S. car owners who already spend $3 billion yearly on auto liability insurance will soon have to pay about $400 million more. Speaking for three of the biggest casualty companies-State Farm Mutual, Allstate. Nationwide Mutual-General Manager Vestal Lemmon of the National Association of Independent Insurers said: "Before the end of the year the western half of the country will see substantial increases. It may be the second quarter of 1957 before they get to the eastern areas." Another top rate-making group, the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters (Aetna Casualty, Travelers, U.S. Fidelity & Guaranty), had already tipped...
...best in The Old Time Religion ("Bacchus my king, O let's be romantic"), and Hiram Sherman (Jupiter) hammed his part happily, right down to losing his hula skirt. Musico-medienne Paula Laurence was the most professional of all as Miss P. (for Public) Opinion, "a vestal virgin with a bachelor's degree." Her message: break as many commandments as you please, except for "Thou shalt not be found out." But the audience easily found out Librettist Bentley, who had broken the supreme stage commandment: "Thou shalt not bore...
...imprisoned pope often interrupted his daily mandolin strumming and xylophone banging to pray for the dead. Meanwhile, rivalry between the pope and his disaffected general to win the favor of the faithful went on apace. Last week General Phuong tipped the scales by collecting certified letters from 19 vestal virgins of Cao Dai complaining that the pope had raped them. He then called a congress of the Cao Dai hierarchy to consider the complaints. Three days before the congress met, Pope Tac decided to get out of town. Loading his two daughters and a bearded cardinal into a sky-blue...