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...year-old mother, who was living with an AWOL soldier, said he had fallen off a bed, and the child was returned to the mother three days later. Twice within the next month he required further hospital treatment for injuries that included whip welts on the back, puncture wounds in the neck, and burned fingertips; the last time he had strangulation marks and was not breathing. Before respiration was restored, he suffered so much brain damage that he had to be confined to a home for the mentally retarded. Now three, he has an IQ of 24 and may never...
...Party Whip. Yet this elaboration and search is now being sharply questioned, especially when it leads to the relaxation of discipline. One of the questioners is Jean Cardinal Danielou, a Jesuit theologian once regarded as a liberal, who has become a kind of party whip for orthodoxy. Danielou recently took to Vatican Radio to deplore the "false concept of liberty" that he says has sprung from a misinterpretation of the Second Vatican Council. "We must put people on their guard against books, journals and conferences where false ideas are propagated," he said. One idea he cited as false was that...
McGovern was thought to have a chance for Michigan's 21 electoral votes but Nixon still beat the South Dakota Senator with 58 per cent of the vote. Republican Senate minority whip Robert Griffin beat down a stiff challenge from Democrat state Attorney General Frank Kelley to return to Washington with 5-4 per cent of the vote...
Bixby was once a staffer for Thomas Dewey, the classic victim of political overconfidence, and Bixby says that he "vividly remembers" the last-minute rehersals of the 1948 election. So he is trying to whip his Republican team into a frenzy before the big game...
They are beautiful songs with their roots in the darkest and most beautiful parts of Africa. They are songs that race back to a time when there was no white man, no whip, no shotgun. They are songs that depict the misery and joy of the human condition, they sound a note of freedom and life in the face of imprisonment and death...