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Contrast the picture of courageous Bishop Ordass shown in your Oct. 22 Religion section with the pictures of Christ. I'll wager the true Christ looked more like Bishop Ordass and the Middle Ages' conception of Christ than the silly, grinning, effeminate, puffy-cheeked companion by Painter Ivan Pusecker...
...magic chemistry of courage, anger and desperation that makes men wager their lives for an ideal fired Hungary into revolution last week. Unarmed, unorganized, unaided from outside, not even fully aware at first of what might be involved in their deeds, the Hungarian people rolled back the tide of Communism. They overthrew a government. They took on the Soviet army. They fought well and long enough to win at least the pledged right to be free of Moscow dictation and free of one-party dictatorship. I hey suffered by the thousands and died by the hundreds...
...only will Javits carry the upstate vote, but I am willing to wager that he will break the Democratic bloc of New York City. Javits sounds more like a Democrat than Wagner...
...known to the trade-down to a modest 4.8% on football and basketball, only 2.4% on baseball. Bookies who go through the motions of paying their taxes simply try to get away with listing all bets at 10% of their actual figure, i.e., a $1,000 wager goes into the ledger as $100. The tax then dwindles to a modest 1%. As long as he fools the Feds, the bookmaker has a chance of staying solvent...
...summer, even movies were not profitable. So last year, Haliday, in conjunction with Michael Wager, Miles Morgan '50, and Hunt, decided to revive the Brattle. Their decision was based on nostalgia rather than on any practical business sense, "We thought it would be fun" Haliday recalls. "Since we'd lose money on movies anyway, we figured we might as well lose it on plays...