Word: archbishop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Good for the archbishop! He is one of the few remaining individuals who realize that true beauty is enhanced by maidenly modesty and womanly dignity...
Long before Fidel Castro announced his confiscatory land-reform program for Cuba, a study commission that ranged across the political spectrum from two Communists to the Archbishop of Caracas was at work on the same problem in Venezuela-where 1.7% of the landholders own 74% of the land. Last week President Romulo Betancourt asked Congress to pass into law the commission's recommendations for a "peaceful, legal and orderly reform." No drastic social surgery, the bill's sensible goal is to force untilled land into cultivation and thereby reduce the $135 million that Venezuela now spends annually...
...city slums may now begin to drift back to the farm. The plan will cost $240 million the first year, $7 billion in all. Only the Communists denounced the plan as too moderate and refused to sign the commission's report. The other parties agreed with Caracas Archbishop Rafael Arias Blanco, who declared that passage of the bill "will be for me a feast day of great jubilation...
Since presiding over Britain's royal wedding in 1947, Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, 72, Archbishop of Canterbury, has had little practice in tying nuptial knots. So he was understandably rusty last week while presiding at the marriage of his son, TV Producer Humphrey Fisher, 35, to pretty Airline Stewardess Diana Davis, 27. In pronouncing the lines of the Church of England ceremony, he solemnly besought God that "this woman may be lovely" instead of "loving." He hastily corrected himself, at ceremony's end further atoned by stalling the bridal procession with official busses for every single bridesmaid. Protested loving...
...signed author of these lines is neither a theologian nor a churchman, but 21-year-old Brunette Sue Ingersoll, a hairdresser and New Mexico's Miss Universe entrant, who defied her archbishop by insisting that she would take part in the contest despite his ban (TIME, July 20-27). With outside help-including at least one layman trained in theology-Contestant Ingersoll last week churned out statements to document her own vision of the matter. The real issue, said Sue, is what happens when a Roman Catholic finds the charismatic (supernaturally graced) side of the church at odds with...