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...state school law, allow local communities the option of providing public-school bus service for parochial schools. The heavy Republican vote against the bill irritated Catholic clergy and laity, impatient after years of supporting church schools by contribution, public schools by taxes. "Can we always turn the other cheek?" demanded an editorial in the Portland diocese's official Church World. "Tolerance doesn't mean submission to everything...
...Minister, the stranger spoke, and Verwoerd turned to shake the hand of a presumed greeter. Instead he stared at the point-blank muzzle of a .32 automatic. Pratt fired twice, and South Africa's Prime Minister lay on the concrete aisle, blood spurting from two holes in his cheek and ear. His wife flung her arms around him, crying "What's happened? What's happened?" Then she fainted. Verwoerd's personal bodyguard, Major Carl Richter. was a few feet away when, belatedly, he realized what had happened and fainted...
...about to depart from the battery.'' Or again, the script jerks the customer out of his socks with a gesture of almost electrocuting theatricality-knocked down by the fist of a Nazi brute, a priest struggles blindly to his feet, then firmly turns the other cheek. And even the most calcified tear duct will surely start to flow when Scenarist Presnell turns on the pathos-"What is your name?" a nun inquires of a tiny refugee who lifts her great dark eyes, surrounded by dark hollows of starvation, and sweetly replies...
...those who stood the gaff, perhaps the most rewarding appraisal came on the editorial page under the byline of a Washington monument: Arthur Krock. With tongue tucked tightly in cheek, Krock made it plain that he, like an old friend and news source named Harry Truman, thinks presidential primaries are so much eyewash...
...Khrushchev was clearly conscious of the depth of Catholic hostility to him. Carefully, he told reporters: "I agree with Christ in most of his teachings. Besides, they fit Communism. There is only one point where I do not agree: when Christ says one has to turn the other cheek. For me, if a man strikes me on the cheek, I knock his head off." Nikita's preference for knocking heads became clear after a visit to Douaumont, where thousands of the French and German soldiers who fell at Verdun in World War I are buried. As French Minister...