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...intended-was low-key and at times downright dull. Just as, it was noted, only a dish of spaghetti excites a Roman, it takes a good deal to turn the attention of other Europeans from their coq au vin, fish and chips or sauerbraten to any display of public fervor. It was therefore predictable that Richard Nixon's earnest pilgrimage stirred less excitement last week than the triumphant passages of his more glamorous predecessors, Eisenhower and Kennedy -or even than the European hegira early last month of Astronaut Frank Borman, fresh from orbiting the moon...
Located on 1,250 acres of desert land in Arizona's Cochise County, Miracle Valley today is a teetotaling, nonsmoking oasis of evangelistic fervor and hard-nosed business. At the Miracle Valley Bible College, 100 students from as far away as the Philippines (his "special" mission territory) study the Allen brand of evangelism. In its busy headquarters building, squads of secretaries, mail clerks and printers attend the banks of file cards, automatic typewriters and offset presses that allow Allen to print and mail out more than 55 million pieces of literature every year. TV and radio technicians stand...
...rich victims, they carefully scouted out their targets. But they had no objection to the impromptu murder of a party of four-for as little as 20 gold pieces and a handful of rupees. Whatever drove the Thugs-probably a mixture of greed, blood lust and corrupted religious fervor-their energy and enterprise were astonishing. One boasted of 931 murders in a fruitful 40-year career...
After all, it was the fervor of Celtic Patrick Henry which stirred the imaginations of colonial Americans...
During "the Days of May," as Frenchmen call the chaotic weeks last year when France lay paralyzed by radical students and workers, much of the revolutionary fervor was provided by Daniel Cohn-Bendit, a chubby sociology student of German descent. They called him "Danny the Red"-not only because of his shock of reddish hair but because of the ideas with which he fired his fellow enrages. Dismayed by society, they demanded nothing short of a complete overthrow of the system. Now Cohn-Bendit, banished from France after his abortive attempt at revolution, has combined forces with his brother Gabriel...