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...month to Senator Thurmond and a jeering clutch of old ladies wearing "pro-blue" badges, "I was paid $400,000 a year to take responsibility for the second biggest business enterprise in the world. I learned there, and I believe today, that it is not sound management practice to pin the blame on subordinates for responsibilities which are mine...
Msgr. George W. Casey, 65, is a Boston Irish Catholic who looks on the folklore of Boston Irish Catholics just about the way that a small boy with a pin looks on a cluster of balloons. In his lively column for the Pilot, weekly newspaper of the Boston archdiocese, Father Casey has lampooned South Boston's "convivial, congenital, incurable" Irish for boozing it up on St. Patrick's Day, criticized parish priests for being "tyrants," and even suggested that nuns wear modern clothes -all to howls of Hibernian protest...
Most Israelis seem impatient at the delays. A Jerusalem lawyer conceded last week that Hausner had not proved Eichmann was the "main cog'' in exterminating Jews. Too many others were involved, he said, "to pin all the blame on one man." Then he added: "But what does it matter if you hang Eichmann as a big or a little cog, so long as you hang him?" With the death penalty accepted as inevitable (though the 13-year-old state of Israel has never hanged anyone before), some Israelis wonder what should be done with Eichmann's body...
Many of the Union's members sport a round pin bearing the word DO, which stands for the WCTU doors-open theme ("Doors Open for Christian Sobriety"). "Do" is also the WCTU's favorite word. Members are fond of sentences with lots of energetic do's, like "Do not be afraid to do whatever you can do to stop your friends from purchasing food in supermarkets that do sell beer and malts." The slogan for the coming year is "Double...
...Well?) a silent female companion who slinks about in a black gown and ling cigarette-holder, a refugee from a Charles Addams cartoon. The Duke's wrestler sports a checkered jacket and straw hat. Le Beau, complete with pseudo-French accent, wears white shoes and a monocle, a tie pin and boutonniere. the first lord is in a batik-jacketed tuxedo, and wears a black eye-patch out of a Hathaway shirt ad. And Touchstone has a patchwork jacket and pink shirt...