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...opportunists were killing us. Just as Williams started back to the dugout, Vice President Humphrey--an ardent Minnesota fan, don't you know--made his carefully timed entrance into front row seats where he stood next to Ted Kennedy. Photographers pushed in close, Hubert worked himself into a frenzy of smiles, and Williams trotted by unnoticed...
Senior Citizen. Thereafter, Ehrenburg was as ardent an advocate of greater freedom of expression within the Soviet Union as he had been an acquiescent promoter of Stalin. In one of the final chapters of his diffuse six-volume memoirs he even backtracked: the voice of Stalin he had once heard became ominous "noises on the stairs"-meaning the approach of the secret police. "If he just read the list of all his victims," he said of the old dictator, "he would not have been able to do anything else...
...Hans Anton Kroll, 69, West German Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1958 to 1962, a feisty career diplomat who in 1950 was chosen by Konrad Adenauer to head an East European trade ministry, got along so well with the Communists that he was posted to Moscow, where his ardent campaign for Russo-German friendship grew so distasteful to Germany's Western allies that der Alte finally recalled him; of a heart attack; in Starnberg, West Germany...
Abroad, Pentecostalism has spread to more than 90 nations from Australia to South Africa and South Korea to Finland. Nowhere has it found more ardent followers than in Brazil. There are now 2,600,000 Pentecostalists in that nominally Catholic country-a gain of 1,100,000 since 1962. A major reason for the harvest is that, despite the Brazilians' traditionally easygoing approach to religion, many seem to be drawn by the intimacy and fervor of Pentecostal services, the joyous and uninhibited hymn singing, and the upright rigidity of the church's moral standards (no smoking or drinking...
...that has always been more or less the case. Even ardent "segs" have enjoyed an occasional tete-a-tete with a well-dressed, soft-spoken Courier reporter. (Exception: A team of reporters covering the first civil rights demonstration in Ft. Deposit, not far from Selma, were surrounded by white mobs twice; a county voting examiner smashed an ax handle through their car windshield; and five carloads of toughs followed them out of town.) A drugstore owner in Linden bought a copy of the paper from two reporters, remarking, "Course, I make up my own mind, but I've heard from...