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...Technology of Salvation. While Evangelist Graham sincerely considers himself nothing but a tool of God, he believes in giving God plenty of help with some tools of his own. The tools he has fashioned add up to an intricate technology of soul-saving that might astonish St. Paul, bewilder John Wesley and give any Madison Avenue adman some ideas...
...considered improper for a Westerner to visit a Burmese in shorts or a tropical shirt; the Burmese, colonial subjects of Britain until 1948, are sensitive about Westerners who appear to take them for granted. Yet the proper Burmese are remarkably free with their language: Burmese women will astonish Westerners with vivid, physical references to males they do not like; Prime Minister U Nu, a Buddhist layman of unusual piety, will casually refer to Communists as "Kwe-Ma-Tha," meaning "dog-bitch-sons...
...pound guard named Cal Hubbard, slammed out a 16 to 7 victory over a Harvard team which was minus R. W. Turner and J. P. Crosby, both of whom had been inactivated by the language requirement. The number of one's classmates who were on pro would astonish today's undergraduate--950 entered as freshmen, but only 650 would be around to graduate. Coach Horween had a whole-team of ineligible men which he used to scrimmage the varsity...
...That the Communist press finds cause for rejoicing in [Salisbury's] reporting should astonish no one. What is considerbly less comprehensible, however is that one of the world's great newspapers should place so high a price on the privilege of maintaining a correspondent in Soviet Russia that it is content with [Salisbury...
...American method of treating visiting celebrities seemed to astonish Austria's Chancellor Leopold Figl, who, arriving at the White House, had to face still another crew of cameramen. Said he to his host: "When people come to the U.S., they think they are coming to a democracy, but it is a photocracy...