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...friendly Mississippi-born ex-newspaperman who gave up golf for gardening because "it is better for my waistline." He spends most of his time interviewing and advising prospective brides & grooms. Because he will not marry divorced persons, elopers, or girls under 21 who lack parental consent, he turns away some 500 couples a year. Yet in his 20-year rectorate, he has approved 50,000 weddings, performed some 25,000 of them himself...
...ownership of strategic bases is not nearly so important as permission to use them. (Some reporters went so far as to predict that the U.S. would consent to exchanging some of its vast supply of commercial planes in return for rights to use some of Britain's bases...
...girl was a well-known prostitute; the acts had been committed with her consent, she had been paid for her compliance. They identified the lieutenant as Robert L. Engels and said that the testimony as to whether the soldiers had threatened him or not "was in dispute." In an affidavit Loury declared that Engels had simply bowed...
...loss of 47% of prewar Poland, while it represents a gain of less than 1% for the Soviet Union. The Polish Government has declared its readiness to discuss concessions, but no government, least of all a government in exile, could make such concessions as this without the express consent of the Polish people...
Rabbi Harold H. Mashioff, at whose Temple of the Covenant the desecration scene was filmed, gave consent because the synagogue has been desecrated several times. He found it "difficult to see how any group could take offense at this film." Said he: "In no part of the script was suspicion cast upon any minority or group. All religions are facing this difficulty and we cannot correct an evil without showing what...