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...leading Democrat took this unhappy inventory last week: No one can block McGovern's nomination, and if McGovern is nominated, he cannot win in November. His only chance would be to abandon the South and Border states, shift his positions to regain the moderate, middle-ground Democrats and hope somehow for a sweep through the Eastern industrial states-Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania-plus Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin and California...
...Pompidou was persuaded to grant Touvier a presidential pardon, which allowed him to return to his home on Chemin des Charmettes in Chambery, near Lyon, and to regain possession of his confiscated property-much of it booty plundered or extorted from wealthy Jews during...
...intensity was reached by the Satanists of 17th century France, who were rooted out by a secret court under Louis XIV. A famous case of that day involved a series of demonic rituals commissioned by a mistress of Louis who felt that she was falling out of favor. To regain the monarch's love, she had a corrupt priest say sacrilegious Masses *over her nude body in a subterranean Paris chamber, sacrificing a live child at the height of each Mass...
...novel aspires to any profundity, it is guardedly suggested by his conception of history as an illusive collection of myths that must work themselves out until they return to their original unpolluted form. Magog's corruption and putative incest are steps in his perverted search to regain innocence. "R.Z. Sheppard
...Plantar," one of the basic exercises in a training program now being advertised and offered in a dozen cities by a new mystical movement: the New York-based Arica Institute in America, Inc. By following the mental and physical regime prescribed by Arica, trainees are told, they may well "regain the Essential Self," achieve "total serenity" and "unity with emptiness," and ascend to a beatific level of consciousness arcanely called "the Permanent...