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...sick of hearing that we have all lost our sense of direction, our religion, and our moral code. One 1960 graduate has seen direction and purpose, a concern for religion and for moral values, and self-discipline in so many people that she feels these human qualities are not extinct...
...golden standards, but it was complete and well organized. The village's regular streets and identical houses must have been laid down as deliberately as any modern Levittown. Each house has the same plan, with an outer vestibule for cattle, pigs, sheep, dogs, and a breed (now extinct) of small horses. Inside are the living quarters-a single, squarish room with a chimneyless fireplace at one side and a raised bed platform at the other...
These pre-Christian Baptists are all but extinct today; barely 5,000 of them live on in Iraq, and in each generation there are fewer and fewer priests who can become bishops. Reason: a new prelate traditionally should be consecrated in the presence of a dying man who is to carry the bishop's words to paradise...
...Journey to the Center of the Earth, based on Jules Verne's novel, follows James Mason as he descends into an extinct volcano in Iceland, spends almost a year underground with such companions as Plucky Youth Pat Boone and Beautiful Widow Arlene Dahl, is coughed back up through the crater of Mount Stromboli. A grandly entertaining spoof...
...Journey to the Center of the Earth (from Jules Verne's novel) follows James Mason as he descends into an extinct volcano in Iceland, spends almost a year underground with such companions as Plucky Youth Pat Boone and Beautiful Widow Arlene Dahl, is coughed back up through the crater of Mount Stromboli. A grandly entertaining spoof...