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...Karate King. The high priest of Hollywood's fast-growing karate sect, and host at last week's exhibition, is a black-maned, 6-ft., 210-lb. devout Mormon named Ed Parker, who, he says, learned the deadly, lightning-fast ballet in his native Honolulu in order to avoid getting into fights with friends who taunted him because he did not drink or smoke. After serving a Coast Guard hitch during the Korean War and graduating from Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, he moved to Pasadena, opened his first karate studio four years ago, started a second...
...procession of churchmen wound slowly through Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity, the elderly, bespectacled Anglican prelate stopped before the Roman Catholic altar, knelt and murmured a brief prayer. He also knelt before the two other altars in the three-sect church: the Greek Orthodox and Armenian Orthodox. Flashbulbs popped and newsmen recorded the fact, for the prelate was none other than the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, 73, Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of the Church of England. Dr. Fisher was in the Holy Land on the first leg of a twelve-day Middle Eastern pilgrimage that will...
Spice, meat, and candy vendors were herded behind their rickety counters to let the archbishop and his party pass. "A bit difficult sightseeing this way, isn't it?" said Dr. Fisher. The archbishop entered the three-sect Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Greek, Armenian, and Roman Catholic priests fought for his attention. "It is very hard to compress eternity into only a few moments," said the archbishop, as the organ began pealing God Save the Queen. (The organist was a Belgian Catholic who had no idea what else was appropriate for an Anglican churchman...
Direct from God. Apostle Smith can well remember when the future of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was not nearly so promising. His life spans the Mormon Church's transition from a persecuted rebel sect to one of the most dynamic congregations in Christendom. As a boy, Smith's father followed Brigham Young across the plains, traveling in a covered wagon with his mother, widowed when a mob lynched her husband. Growing up near the Great Salt Lake, he had five wives and 42 children; his tenth son was Joseph Fielding Smith, who recalls...
Surrounded by a flock of wazirs (councilors) everywhere he went, he blessed thousands of faithful followers, who fought to touch his hand and besieged him with requests. The visitor listened gravely, kept three secretaries busy handling his replies. For the 20 million members of the Ismaili Moslem sect face challenging times, and their new Imam was determined to lead them well. "All that really matters for me is my work.'' says 23-year-old Karim Aga Khan. "All the rest is tripe...