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Their leader, tall, shock-haired Cline Paden, 30, from Lubbock, Texas, had gone to Italy in 1947 and found the country "sorely in need of material and spiritual help." With his brother Harold and eleven helpers, Evangelist Paden concentrated on the town of Frascati, four miles from the Pope's summer residence at Castel Gandolfo...
Last week C.D.C. got a rude shock. The World Bank wanted to know1) how and with whom C.D.C. would spend the $5,000,000 and 2) what were the Colonial projects on which it would use the machinery. Though such full disclosure is a standard requirement for World Bank loans, C.D.C. Chairman Lord Trefgarne thought the requirement "too onerous," forthwith canceled the request for the loan. Said World Bank Chairman Eugene Black: "I think it is perfectly reasonable to request that, when we lend money to buy machinery, we get to see what they are going to do with...
...teammates put him down as lazy and self-centered. Instead of pounding his glove in disgust after booting one, Wakefield would laugh and admit that he sure looked like a clown on that one. When Manager Steve O'Neill once tried to shock him out of his complacency by benching him, Dick replied agreeably, "That's all right, Steve . . . Don't put yourself on a spot for me." Manager "Red" Rolfe tried another approach-bullying him-with no more success. At their wit's end a fortnight ago, the Tigers traded their perennial problem child...
...first day he landed at the Dallas airport from New York last September, shock-haired, strapping (6 ft. 2 in., 185 lbs.) Walter Hendl slapped on a cowboy Stetson and accepted appointment as an honorary deputy sheriff. In the next few days he lunched with Fan Dancer Sally Rand at the Junior Chamber of Commerce, judged a beauty contest, went to a Neiman-Marcus fashion show, played jazz piano for the girls at a local prep school and lunched with the Rotarians. For jovial New Jersey-born Hendl, it was all part of his new job as conductor...
...week. As is the army rule, she holds the same rank as her husband. Their five children are all married, but to the commissioner's deep disappointment, none of them followed him into active army service. One reason they didn't, he thinks, was because of the shock of coming back to the U.S. after their early years spent in the Orient. "The clash of life in the U.S., after the quiet of the Far East," he says, "was very exciting to them. It was all we could do to hold them in line...