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...votes came thick and fast as the 2,300 prelates assembled for the Second Vatican Council hurried to make the deadline for the four-year council's end on Dec. 8. By sizable majorities they approved, in principle, the 30,000 word schema on The Church in the Modern World, though there was some vociferous minority naysaying-notably from some conservatives who deplored the schema's encouragement of a "prudent" dialogue with atheists and from some Americans such as Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans, who took exception to the schema's stern condemnation of atomic weapons...
...bottom of his chest where the bands of medals end. "I'm one of those fellas," he says, "who always wanted to be a lawyer and never got to be. In my day bein' a lawyer meant bein' a politician--but I guess I'm pretty much in the thick of things right...
...seat and buckle at the knee, keep their shape as well as an all-Dacron suit. Lace, once too fragile for anything but brides and banquet tables, now can be used for all-purpose coats and dresses. Women's heavy knitted suits and dresses, often made double-thick to prevent stretching and wrinkling, can be just as neat and twice as light if made of bonded single knit...
...hours a day, seven days a week, to keep the drill boring slowly into the sea floor beneath. Last week the punishing grind paid off: the rig's owner, Continental Oil Co. of England (a subsidiary of the U.S.'s Conoco), struck a promising, 64-ft.-thick pocket of natural gas that is yielding...
Just when one of the safeties seems to have him down, his short, thick legs pump a little harder and Gatto is loose for another long gain. There are faster backs and stronger ones, but the quick start and fluid change of direction have spelled success for Gatto...