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...Amsterdam, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines announced that it would forthwith equip all its planes with portable altars (including altar stone, crucifix, chalice, missal, altar cloths and a gold and purple chasuble). The innovation, said airline officials, was the result of numerous requests from air traveling priests...
...Forthwith, Britain's newspapers began to bulge with letters-to-the-editor. Many quoted the Church of England's Book of Common Prayer: "First, it [marriage] was ordained for the procreation of children, to be brought up in the fear and nurture of the Lord and to the praise of His holy name." Cardinal Griffin, Archbishop of Westminster, defined the Roman Catholic position: "The primary purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children; the secondary end, mutual support and the relief of concupiscence. . . . Contraceptive intercourse, whether with the aid of instruments or not, is not consummation...
...always, his activity was accompanied by great public outcry. Millions of U.S. citizens considered him a putty-nosed Canute trying to hold back the tide of progress. The nation was full of editorial writers who swore they could see foam dribbling down his jowls and wanted him clapped forthwith into a strait jacket. There was a certain irony in this. Petrillo's carnivorous methods of "getting something for the boys" made him the natural foe of the canned-music business, but he was also part and product of it, as much a child of Edison and Marconi...
...them are doing pretty well. In fact, the only consideration to limit the scribes so far is whether their candidate for the post has his picture filed away among the paper's stockpile of photographic cuts. One journal discovered Wes Fesler's face in the closet and started forthwith to bring the well-known Ohio State mentor to Cambridge. Another found Frank Leahy's countenance on hand, but went through the formality of calling the South Bend shepherd on the telephone before laying any plans for his proposed trip eastward...
...Greenville he decided to "rest," and forthwith dropped his 260 pounds, unevenly distributed on his 6 ft. 8 in. frame, on the floor of a courtroom. He did it again at Evergreen, and then outraged even his folksy constituents by getting drowsy on the sidewalk in front of a cafe in Atmore...