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...chance, a Roman Catholic walked into Sunday worship at the Church of the Divine Wisdom in Mount Vernon, N.Y., he would feel right at home. The priest at the altar would be wearing alb, chasuble, maniple and stole, the familiar Eucharistic vestments of the Western church; the liturgy he celebrated, except for the use of English instead of Latin, would be almost identical with the Roman Mass. But the worshippers at the church are not Roman Catholics, or even High-Church Anglicans; they are members of the little-known Western Rite of the Orthodox Church...
...brother J. Noel, 64, the Westchester group has developed into a journalistic property that attracted many bidders. After inheriting the nucleus of the chain and $30 million from their father in 1930, the two Macys spread their enterprise over such well-fixed Westchester communities as Tarrytown, Mamaroneck, Mount Vernon and New Rochelle. The chain's 175,000 circulation is a useful addition to the Gannett fold. But the major beneficiaries are likely to be suburbanites in Westchester, where the caliber of the local journalism can only improve...
...habits. Since Nov. 22 he has worshiped at: Washington's National City Christian Church; the Harriet Chapel, a little Methodist church near Camp David, Md.; St. Mark's Episcopal Church in Washington; St. John's Episcopal Church, on Lafayette Square across from the White House; Mt. Vernon Place Methodist Church in Washington; and St. Barnabas Episcopal Church in Fredericksburg, Texas, an old log cabin that can seat 30 people on a busy Sunday...
...perfectly. Among a dozen fine performances, Penepole Laughton is outstanding as the delicate Mary Garga, who slips into prostitution after Shlink rebuffs her. Dan Morgan creates a fittingly inscrutable Shlink, and John Lasell acts as harried and erratic as a man in George Garga's situation ought to be. Vernon Blackman, Paul Benedict, and Dustin Hoffman are wonderfully snide and easy-going in the roles of Skinny, Worm, and Babson, Shlink's strongarm...
Unlike the two Latin American programs, the Indonesian project is relatively "low-pressure," Vernon says. Two advisers are at work with the Ministry of National Research, helping them to develop a corps of Indonesian economists who "can look at their economy rationally...