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Alas for poor, weak, indecisive Clara, it was nothing of the kind. Her love and her letters continued to pour forth for the benefit of masterful Benito Mussolini, right up to the time in April 1945 when the two of them were hung together by the heels in death in Milan's Piazza Loreto. Clara never learned to forgive her dictator, his indifference, his violence or his infidelities, and never learned to forget...
Army Engineers have failed to take into account all possible adjustments which might be made to the Missouri Basin. Maass concluded, and "their surveys of the problem are devoted almost exclusively to engineering works for flood protection because they, like so many engineers, just like to pour concrete...
...Moines's 1950 records show $12,000 paid in taxes on land held by the college. Lawson's books are peddled around town for as much as $5 a copy and contributions seem to pour into the university's coffers. In Detroit a Ford worker said he had donated $8,000 to the school; a postman said he gave close to $5,000. Yet Founder Lawson insists that he is a poor man, frequently turns his pockets inside out at meetings, and lives in seclusion away from the school...
However, the roots of the argument that Mr. Truman was opposing go deep, and are well nourished with patriotism. From one quite rational point of view, it is very difficult to see why the United States should pour money into countries all over the world, not only for military defense but for economic aid and development, when many of those countries are actually opposed to basic U.S. policies and often show little determination to keep their internal affairs stable or their foreign policies reliable...
Biographer Ward's own opinion is that Chesterton's "ready acceptance of life's normal pleasures" rules him out of saintly ranks. But it does not put him among those who, precisely because they "fail to reach sanctity . . . pour out upon us the vials of their gloom." Chesterton ranks, she believes, among the "spiritual geniuses" of the human race-"to which," as G.K. once observed, "so many of my readers belong...