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Christianity in Africa entered a new phase last week: for the first time in the two centuries that missionaries have been sowing the Gospel seed among the continent's jungles, veldts and hills, the Protestant churches of Africa met together. Some 200 leaders gathered for a ten-day All-Africa Church Conference at St. Anne's Anglican Girls' School at Ibadan, Nigeria...
...vrai" in the form of an Italian truck driver (Raf Vallone). The lovers do not plot the husband's death, but they kill him anyway. After that, accidents keep following each other as if in mockery of Zola's thesis that the punishment must sprout from the seed of the crime...
...Christmastide. Said a member of Hammarskjold's staff: "All these people clearly want to be identified with the U.N. and to play their part in this unique operation. One after another said: 'This is an army of peace.' And, by God, it has sown the seed of peace in their minds-even among newcomers...
Mexicali's cotton prosperity is the offspring of a convenient marriage of U.S. capitalism and Mexican socialism. Between 1936 and 1938 President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated foreign-held cotton land in the valley, doled it out to Mexican peasants. Too poor to buy seed, fertilizer and equipment, the farmers turned to the Mexican subsidiary of the giant U.S. firm of Anderson, Clayton & Co., which branched out from ginning into financing the growers. Since 1939, production has climbed ten times...
...span the years from the eve of World War I to the eve of World War II. Author Troyat, 46, is trying hard to fit his stride to those giant footsteps: this book is the second of a series of related novels that is to be called The Seed and the Fruit and will use as its canvas the past half-century of French life...