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...bill, Administration officials frequently consulted with Mills by telephone. At times it seemed as if the two most important seats of power in the U.S. were the temporary White House in a Palm Beach mansion and Congressman Mills's office in the basement of the post office in Searcy, Ark., just a hoot and a holler from his home town of Kensett...
Feathers & Squawk. In Kensett, Ark., where Mills grew up, his father was one of the most prosperous men in town, owner of a busy country store that sold everything from horehound drops to horse collars. (Mills's mother, 77, still helps run the store.) Later on, Ardra Mills acquired a cotton gin and an interest in the local bank. Wilbur worked in the store during his boyhood, but early in life he was struck with awed admiration of William A. Oldfield, the bouncy, genial Congressman from the district. In his travels around his constituency, Oldfield frequently visited Kensett and stopped...
Died. Dick Powell, 58, one of the first big-time Hollywood stars to leave the silver screen for the gold mines of TV, a onetime choirboy from Mountain View, Ark., who broke into the early talkies as a baby-faced crooner, later retyped himself as a good bad guy in a dozen movies, none as successful as his co-ownership (with David Niven and Charles Boyer) of Four Star Television, which had as many as 13 shows (among them: The Rifleman, Richard Diamond) going at one time; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...Natural, Peaceful, Wise." Although all but one of Lanza's current companions are Roman Catholics, the Ark has no official connection with that church, and membership is open to anyone who believes in God. The 20 permanent adult members of the community have taken vows, and live under an oath of poverty. Husbands and wives live together, are primarily responsible for the education of their children. In imitation of Gandhi, the members of the community begin their day with yoga-like exercises, practice an ardent pacifism. They have joined in sitdown strikes at the Marcoule atomic-energy plant, demonstrated...
Lanza knows that the Companions of the Ark are turning their backs on the times, but he believes that it is the times, and not the companions, that are out of joint. "The crowding together of masses of people in uninhabitable big cities will, sooner or later, provoke a return to the country," he says. "The survivors of cataclysms soon to come, caused by the hand of man, will oblige humanity to regroup itself for a simple, natural, peaceful and wise life. So we shall have had a head start on humanity...