Word: wafers
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...being among the first Americans to get in on the gold action. A Michigan girl, twelve-year-old Carlenne Brown of Bloomfield township, claims to be the first buyer of the yellow metal. At one second past midnight on Dec. 31, she signed an invoice for a quarter-ounce wafer, bought for $52.79 through a publicity-minded Southfield, Mich., coin dealer; he obtained the wafer from a fellow dealer in nearby Windsor, Canada, and had it delivered to his shop by car and helicopter...
...majorities than myself." So said Harold Wilson last week as he watched the results of Britain's second general election in less than eight months. Despite polls that showed the Labor Party winning by a margin of possible landslide proportions, Wilson came out of the election with a wafer-thin parliamentary majority-319 seats in the House of Commons, or two more than half of the total-and the smallest popular vote (39.3%) for any majority government in Britain's history...
...prominent Paris jurist, was named Minister of Health. Three posts went to members of Giscard's small Independent Republican Party. No fewer than eight posts went either to nonpolitical civil servants or to leaders of the small center parties that made indispensable contributions to Giscard's wafer-thin margin of victory. One of them was Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 50, publisher of the weekly L 'Express and self-styled French new frontiersman, who after many years of unsuccessfully striving to project himself as a Gallic John Kennedy, has at last found a national role; as Giscard...
...referring, of course, to the "spirited debate" by U.S. Roman Catholic bishops over whether to place the Communion wafer in the hand or on the tongue of the communicant [Nov. 26]. Could not this kind of petty concern help explain the exodus of the faithful from their respective churches...
Nevertheless, when U.S. Roman Catholic bishops had their annual meeting in Washington, some of the most spirited debate revolved around an extraordinarily technical question: whether priests should now be permitted to place the Communion wafer in the recipient's crossed hands instead of directly on the tongue. Some Catholic congregations in fact quietly practice the hand-to-hand form of Communion already. Yet the bishops voted down the proposal. Greeley and McCready denounced the bishops' sense of priority. "How people receive Communion is obviously more important than whether they receive it," the two wrote. "It is business...