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...Thin-lipped Rightist Gómez, Foreign Minister, president of the conference and backbone of the government of gentle President Mariano Ospina Pérez, was not there. But the rioters poured in anyhow. They threw typewriters out of windows, splintered furniture, tore up records...
Actress Gene Tierney and Designer Oleg Cassini, separated more than a year, got back together. (He had kept on designing her dresses through thick & thin...
...ability of the Crimson to hit this afternoon may well tell the story, for while first-line pitching has been good so far, hits have been scattered much too thin for efficiency...
Within the hour, Don Vicente had his toothpick-thin cook, La Maga (The Wizard), at work. By nightfall, he had sent a ten-liter container by air to Gilberto Bosques, Mexican ambassador in Lisbon, with instructions on how to give a mole banquet for leading Portuguese statesmen. Free samples also went to restaurants and hotels in the big cities of the world. Said Don Vicente: "No one who eats mole can think of war and death...
...Heave It Higher." In his scholarly study of the Eucharist, The Shape of the Liturgy (Dacre Press, London, 1945), Liturgist Dom Gregory Dix writes of a trend that came after the 4th Century. Multiplication of churches began to spread the clergy thin, and led to the short, popular "low Mass" performed by one priest alone, in which the congregation took little part. A notion also arose that the Communion was only for those whose lives were almost sinless. As a result of these and other factors, says Dix, the Communion came to be looked upon more & more as a rite...