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...day last month we received a request from Ann Mulville, of Norfolk, Conn., for whatever information we might have on Salvatore Giuliano, Sicily's most renowned present-day bandit, who has achieved an international reputation for, among other overt acts, robbing the rich for the benefit of the poor. Miss Mulville explained: "We are having a mock trial of the case in our seventh grade at school, and I am the district attorney...
...black-clad figure. For more than two years thereafter, Francis Xavier moved tirelessly among the Japanese, of whom he wrote: "These people are the delight of my soul." He made hundreds of converts, sowed the seed of a Japanese church that numbers more than 100,000 Catholics in present-day Japan. Among them 1,200 missionaries, re-admitted after V-J day, are preaching and teaching to widen the saint's work...
Hispanidad is a curious, almost indefinable doctrine. Its present-day adherents preach that only by a spiritual union of the New World's Spanish-speaking countries with Roman Catholic Mother Spain can mankind be saved from godless Communists and heretical Anglo-Saxons. In Argentina, where the Peron regime until recently made much of its close kinship with Spain, the doctrine has won many a convert. But last week, hard on the heels of the failure of Argentina's trade agreement with Spain (TIME, April 25), a distinguished Argentine cleric was calling Hispanidad a lot of nonsense...
...drive a conventional propeller. This compromise gives turboprops some advantage. They are simpler and lighter than piston engines, and they burn cheap, nonexplosive kerosene instead of high-octane gas. Unlike turbojets, they do not have to fly at extremely high speeds to operate efficiently. At the speeds practical for present-day airliners (300-plus m.p.h.), the jet's high velocity blast wastes much of its energy in merely pushing air backward...
...Present-day Western civilization, says Sir Heneage, has made it hard to make proper use of the mind. Man was better off in the Middle Ages, when he had a better chance of 1) a job that demanded individual skill, 2) some security, and 3) a sense of doing something useful in the community. Modern man has been straining so long after success, often doing a job he dislikes, that the strain has become second nature. Men of today, says Ogilvie, "are so constantly keyed up to fight the world that is trying to tread them down that they...