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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Most of the missionaries talk about returning as soon as possible-some have already gone back to set up medical relief teams. They are sure that Christianity is a lasting force in the Congo (example: the Senate of the new republic, a moderating influence in the crisis, has many mission-trained Christian members). But it is also plain that the riots are precipitating the end of an era in the Congo. The Rev. Glenn Murray, 51, a Presbyterian missionary who has spent 20 years in Africa, takes an optimistic long view. "This whole thing will work out best...
...challenge that faced them, said the World Council's General Secretary Willem Visser 't Hooft, was to "make the church relevant to the world of today.'' They set about it with well-oiled organization, split up into 60 international and interdenominational discussion groups, had time left over for sightseeing and miscellaneous frolics; the French contingent startled W.C.C. officials by electing a Swedish sex kitten "Miss Ecumenia.'' In a gesture of harmony, the Roman Catholic bishop of Geneva and Lausanne sent five observers to the assembly, and a special Mass was celebrated in Lausanne invoking...
...slender himself. His anonymity does not bother him in the least: "Debeljevic doesn't work very easily on the telephone with a stranger. It's easier to say yes, this is Mr. Delia Casa." ¶Mario Lanfranchi, 33, is an Italian TV producer, who four years ago set U.S.-born Soprano Anna Moffo, 25, on the road to La Scala by hiring her for a highly successful TV production of Madame Butterfly. Soon afterward, when he married Moffo, Lanfranchi took over the handling of her career. His services include the design of Moffo's shoes, clothes...
...result of Allen's leadership was that the Bulletin grew up. Born as an occasional handbill on downtown storefronts, the paper had gone daily in 1882 and settled into an indolent rut, focusing mostly on the doings along King Street and the arrival and departure of ships. Allen set about extending the paper's horizon, but not without occasional whimsical excursions into island fun. ?No one could be really sure what would appear on April Fools' Day. Allen once ran a great hoax about the remains of a Viking Ship being uncovered in the sands off Waimanalo...
...lean-to is another miserable failure," noted Boyd on the second day. "We need some kind of food," he wrote on the third, telling how he fashioned Sharon's ring into a barbless hook and caught seven trout. Breathlessly, Boyd reported the discovery of a set of deer horns, a hunter's cache of cooking gear, a squirrel's cache of nuts-and described a family feast of frogs' legs provided...