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...rally in Marysville, Rene Carpenter ticked off a long list of Glenn's virtues, cried, "Why must politics be something dirty? Why can't you believe that there is such a man-almost too good to be true? I know that maybe that's his flaw. We've heard the 'Jack Armstrong' remarks, but you have to know this man to appreciate...
...Pierre Laval was not only "the shrewdest, most forceful personality in Vichy," but an intensely patriotic Frenchman whose tragic flaw was not :hat he sympathized with Hitler but that ie had "astonishing ignorance about the Germans and supreme confidence in his ability to outsmart them...
...annulment-technically, a ruling that no true marriage had ever existed because of an essential flaw in the marital contract-was not easy to get. The Roman Catholic Church believes that marriages blessed in heaven cannot be dissolved on earth, and does not permit divorce. It will agree that some marriages were null and void from the beginning, but such cases are rare. In 1962, the diocesan and regional marital courts of the church around the world probably annulled fewer than 2,000 marriages. The Rota, Rome's final court of appeal for most annulment claims, handled only...
...camera work may not be perfect, but that's about the film's only flaw. The Easy Life is superbly constructed, thoroughly enjoyable film with something to say. Don't miss...
...held the world record at 7 ft. 3¾ in. could barely clear 6 ft. 8 in. "He was so far out of shape," says Duffy, "that one of my Holy Cross jumpers, a six-eight man at best, was beating him consistently." Almost at once, Duffy spotted a flaw in Thomas' motion. "John had picked up the bad habit of almost stopping and arching backward, right at the bar," he says. "He was losing all his spring that...