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...upstairs. He found the Protectalarm, pulled out his checkbook, and waited patiently while a new clerk figured out how to work the still camera that photographed every customer paying by check. In her confusion, the clerk wrapped the package without first removing the tags. One of them was a wafer, specially radiated to set off a Knogo sonic alarm in the doorway of the store. John had barely reached the sidewalk when he was surrounded by detectives who accused him of shoplifting...
...EUCHARIST. In recent years, some Catholic thinkers-primarily the Dutch -have questioned their church's difficult doctrine of transubstantiation- that the wafer and wine of the Mass are mystically changed into Christ's true body and blood. They have suggested, instead, a doctrine of "transignification," which argues that the change does not take place in the substance of the bread and wine but in the meaning. Pope Paul reaffirmed the literal interpretation, concluding: "In the reality itself, independently of our mind, the bread and wine have ceased to exist after the consecration, so that they are the adorable...
...July 31 were almost $1.2 billion-virtually unchanged from 1966-with Korvette's accounting for $600 million of the total (excluding supermarkets). Spartans' earnings slipped slightly, to a slender $7,100,000. Instead of continued expansion, Bassine's most pressing task is to do something about wafer-thin profit margins at existing stores. It is significant that along with Korvette Herald Square, he has added only one other store...
...effect was breathtaking. Out strode the model, clothed in nothing but wafer-thin plastic disks, each glinting with dazzling sun colors (hot orange, pink) and hung together with fine wires...
...today's one-story, "open-plan" efficiency home, bedrooms abut on "family rooms," kitchens spill over into dining areas, and walls are wafer 'thin - affording, altogether, about as much privacy as a day on Candid Camera...