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When a minister explains the meaning of atonement. Life has its sinner respond: "You mean that Christ took the rap for me?" Explains Dr. Gockel: "You have to meet the pagan where he is." Dr. Gockel allows none of his characters except the fallen to smoke, drink, or dance too close. (His definition of too close: "without space showing between the two bodies.") "But we never preach," he says. "We simply let the value of the Christian message demonstrate itself...
...Church of England, the cruel nonsense of dialectical truth provides the rules of the contest for place and power. Author Grinioff works the same novelist's magic as Trollope-the reader finds Communism hateful and absurd but still wants the little Red bank manager to beat the rap. The book's ultimate irony is stated in the title taken from a 1955 speech by Khrushchev: ''We will abandon Communism when the shrimp learns to whistle.'' According to scientists shrimps are actually highly vocal (one, the Pistol Prawn, makes a noise like a cap pistol...
Instead of trying to compete with the giants all across the board, it hopes to turn a profit by concentrating on the two areas where sales are climbing fastest : the low-medium price field and the small-car market that foreign automakers have rap idly opened...
...baggy-eyed cine-mobster's face on TV (TIME, Aug. 19) as a 140-time Fifth Amendment pleader before the Senate labor rackets investigating committee, arrogant, carefully tailored Johnny Dio, 43, seemed to have made crime pay pretty well: society had not managed to pin a hard rap on him since he served three years in Sing Sing for extortion back in 1937-40. Last week the law pushed over Johnny Dio's well-stocked applecart. In Manhattan, a General Sessions Court judge sentenced Dio and two of his henchmen, Max Chester and Samuel Goldstein, to two years...
...said Committee Counsel Kennedy, hired Tony Ducks just to come into his shop once every couple of weeks and glare at the employees. In 1941, after he had dodged the draft by claiming that he was the sole support of his family, Tony Ducks was convicted on a narcotics rap...