Word: adds
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...flair and his crafty talent for wedding the ridiculous to the dramatic, he might easily become an important prose bard. But Ustinov wants to write. While he did reasonably well in his engaging 1957 comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, he failed badly last year in his book of short stories. Add a Dash of Pity. To his credit, Ustinov refuses to quit: he has written a first novel...
Some conscientious supporters of reform fear that a popularly elected convention would run amuck over the Declaration of Rights and perhaps abolish the protection against self-incrimination. Backers of a convention answer that this suspicion of the electorate is inconsistent with democratic government; but they add that even if the convention ran wild, people would have a year to cool off and refuse to ratify bad suggestions in the referendum. As a further protection, the bill to put the convention to a referendum bars the body from discussing the Declaration of Rights, but the courts have not yet said that...
...make a Kennedy cocktail: three parts Old Fitzgerald, one part holy water, add a twist of Norman Vincent Peale...
Last month Kubitschek's money presses clanked out 4.4 billion cruzeiros worth ½? U.S. each, will probably add another 10 billion this month to meet year-end expenses. Total money in circulation: 194 billion cruzeiros-nearly three times the amount when Kubitschek took office. Brazil's builder-spender increased the internal debt more than five times, more than doubled the foreign debt. As a result, the balance of trade has slumped from a $194 million surplus in 1956 to deficits as high as $283 million in the succeeding years...
When Presbyterian Blake had finished his long sermon, Bishop Pike (who had foreknowledge of what his Presbyterian friend would say) stepped forward in his white and blue vestments to add his amen to Blake's proposal: "I can say that his prophetic proclamation is the most sound and inspiring proposal for the unity of the church in this country which has ever been made in its history...