Word: washing
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...church's embarrassment continued to grow over the troubles of Munich's Bishop Matthias Defregger. Last month, he was implicated in the World War II execution of 17 hostages in Italy, where he served as a German army captain (TIME, July 18). Apparently wanting to wash its hands of the affair, the Vatican denied that it had knowledge of Defregger's wartime past when it made him bishop last year. The Vatican daily L'Osservatore Romano reported that only Defregger's "immediate superiors"-led by Munich's Julius Cardinal Döpfner...
...sale in France, since he was never very popular in Spain. The British fabricate "Napoleon soap," with a color reproduction inside of David's famous painting of the Emperor on a horse. The soap shrinks, of course, but the portrait of Napoleon stays. "Imagine being able to wash your hands with Napoleon," exults Xavier Moreschi, the chief Corsican commercializer of the bicentennial in Paris, who is already actively preparing the celebration of the 150th anniversary of Napoleon's death in 1971. "Sure, they get indignant about that back home in Ajaccio, but a guy who can sell soap...
...tanker that had just cleaned its tanks. But on five occasions he ran into the same substances covering the water so thickly, he told TIME Researcher Nancy Williams, that "it was unpleasant to dip our toothbrushes into the sea. Once the water was too dirty to wash our dishes...
Considering the care required by the children, the settlements were hardly generous. Richard can walk, run and climb stairs. He can write well with his foot-but not with his artificial right hand. He cannot wash or dress himself, go to the toilet alone or brush his hair. Although he is in school and has an IQ of 124, it is doubtful that he can go on to a university. David is immobile, except for rocking movements, and probably will be unemployable all his life...
...defensive patri otism (THESE COLORS DO NOT RUN). Patriotism as they see it is assaulted everywhere. "You're trying to teach your chil dren one set of values and every element of life around them shows you up as a square," laments Elaine Whitehead, a telegrapher in Bellingham, Wash. "Sometimes I feel like grabbing a burro and gold pan, packing up my family and heading for the hills...