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Medieval playacting? The dedicated "companions" who make up the Laboring Order of the Ark are convinced that their ascetic, antimodern life is the only way that the principles of the Sermon on the Mount can conscientiously be carried out. Oddly enough, the inspiration for this attitude does not come directly from Christ but from the patron saint of modern India, Mohandas Gandhi. "Nowhere have I encountered a political, social, economic and practical doctrine which in my opinion conforms more to Christ's teachings than Gandhi's," says Joseph Lanza del Vasto, 61, the white-bearded, mystical founder...
...simple trades of farm and field. Convinced that this was a plausible ideal for Christian countries, Lanza in 1954 organized a few like-minded friends into a community on a 100-acre farm that his wife's family owned near the Rhone River. Starting with three families, the Ark's community now has 63 followers. Within France, the movement has gained widespread, respectful attention; one of Lanza's books on his experiences with Gandhi has sold 300,000 copies. A record of medieval troubadour ballads sung by several of the companions won France's Grand Prix...
...city was sinking fast enough for anyone to worry. "I think Venetians exaggerate all their problems because they like to have meetings, and this is certainly the most wonderful place to meet. Therefore, let us have many more of them, perhaps in a motor-driven Noah's Ark in the year...
...read the Bible all the way through every year. But I haven't had time recently to continue it." After graduating from high school, Hargis got a job in a defense plant, earned enough money in six months to quit and enter the Ozark Bible College at Bentonville, Ark., in 1943. "I stayed a year and a half," he says. "Frankly. I left because I felt like I knew everything...
...subordinate to get cracking on the Hodag dispute. Top aides were soon in a tizzy trying to locate what they assumed to be a classified Air Force base. Finally the Air Force broke down and admitted that it was all an interdepartmental joke-Hodag Missile Base in Hodag, Ark., is a fictional site where Milton Caniff s comic-strip hero. Colonel Steve Canyon, recently settled a labor dispute. Growled Goldberg sheepishly: "My God, a guy has to read the funny papers to find out what's going on around here." Stale Turkey. Not all of Goldberg's labor...