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Stocky and quick-smiling, Macapagal (pronounced Mock-a-pa-gahl) was born 51 years ago in a palm-frond hut in rice-growing Pampanga province, north of Manila. His first name means "God-given" in Spanish. His mother was a devout Roman Catholic who taught catechism to schoolchildren, and his father wrote poetry in the local dialect. Since poets do no better financially in the Philippines than anywhere else, Diosdado Macapagal's family was often hungry...
...Express proprietor and Junor's boss, British Press Lord Beaverbrook was only exercising a publisher's right to disagree with his own paper. A devout and hymn-singing Presbyterian, the Beaver had been irritated by a Sunday Express story about some British clergymen who deplored the assault tactics of door-to-door canvassers for two religious faiths: Jehovah's Witnesses and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons). Thundered disgruntled Reader Beaverbrook: "Mormon missionaries represent an important and dignified branch of the Christian religion. Their people in Utah and elsewhere are good-living...
...devout Moslem who neither drinks nor smokes, Youssef Ben Khedda is not regarded as a Communist fin 1956 he actually liquidated a splinter group of Red terrorists in the F.L.N.). though he approves such Communist techniques as the nationalization of industry and political instruction of the Algerian masses. The most potent members of his new Cabinet are such like-minded ex-terrorists as his old comrade in arms. Belkacem Krim, who stays on as Vice Premier and Interior Minister, and tough, able Saad Dahlab. 38, who takes over Krim's old job as Foreign Minister...
...notoriety, Lady Chatterley's Lover is, essentially, just an extravagant sentimentalization of sex and nature through which D. H. Lawrence passionately protested against industrial civilization and Victorian prudery. But despite what Katherine Anne Porter has called its "imbecilic harmlessness," the book still draws devout support, as was shown during last year's obscenity trial in Britain when Lawrence's four-letter words and what the prosecutor called his "reverence for man's genitals" became great crusading issues. Certified by the court as not obscene, Lady Chatterley last week came onstage as a play (at a private...
Buddha's general adviser is Hideo Kimura, professor of Primitive Indian culture at the Buddhist Ryukoku University. Objectively summing up his work, the professor said last week: "I think it is a good picture, and it will not offend devout Buddhists. As for the mass of Japanese people, they are not devout enough to be offended." They just like movies...