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...these orders, the sect established a home for girls in Singen, Germany where Bernadette lived after 1962, and a Swiss mountain retreat, where she lived her last days as a virtual prisoner. Under the pressure of "Mother" Kohler's morbid sexual curiosity, justified as "looking into souls," the girl wrote hundreds of pages of grotesque "confessions": the devil visited her several times a day; he had walked beside her, his black fur glistening, at Holy Communion and often made love to her; he had promised her she could have ten sexually diverse husbands and rule the world with Satan...
...Target. Black students at Evanston Township High School in Illinois, for example, have formed an organization sardonically called BOY and presented the school superintendent with a list of ten demands that is a virtual carbon copy of what blacks are agitating for on college campuses. The superintendent and the board of education are considering all the demands, and have agreed to one: they have added a course on Afro-American culture that will begin this week and be taught by a black instructor...
...Lansbury); a composer-lyricist who had never written for a flop (Jerry Herman, whose previous efforts included Hello Dolly and Mame); and a successful librettist team (Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, authors of Mame and Inherit the Wind). Dear World's five-week tryout engagement here was a virtual sellout before the opening night...
...taunt may be fresh, but the sentiment is not. Having governed their country as a virtual Protestant theocracy since Ireland was partitioned in 1920, the Orangemen of the North pay scant heed to Catholic feelings or, often, to Catholic rights. The Unionist Party monopolized the central government at Storemont from the first, and it has kept power-including voting power-in the hands of the Protestant haves. Businessmen, for example, command up to six votes each in local elections. Nor do the burdens of a chronically weak economy fall equally: unemployment in some Catholic areas runs as high...
Hong Kong flu has now made a virtual clean sweep of the U.S. At its worst, it reached epidemic proportions in 39 states, according to the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta. Ten other states reported more localized outbreaks. Only in Louisiana have there been too few individual cases to warrant the term epidemic...