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Most gospel singers tend to hitch their style to one type of gospel belting. There's hard gospel," a heavily syncopated uptempo mode that pounds along like a steam locomotive. There's "sweet gospel " the gentler, lilting expression that finds its balm in folk dirges such as Steal Away to Jesus or Go Down Moses. Then there's "hallelujah shout," which can set ginmill customers or Southern Baptist congregations to clapping and chanting at the first blaring note...
...Dinh Dicm in South Vietnam this week. 70 per cent of the voters turned out to give Ngo a margin of victory sure to be looked on as one rare and gratifying sign that the West still maintains a position of vigor and strength in Southeast Asia--a balm badly needed after Laos. There is, in fact, so much heartening news from South Vietnam these days that one forgets how precarious the situation there really is. Announcements that the small nation's chronic trade deficit is shrinking, that its agricultural production is growing, and that a new, hard-headed American...
...islands that puts the Bay of Naples to shame. They go to the floating restaurants at the fishing village of Aberdeen, where patrons select the live fish that will be served them at dinner. Between bouts of shopping, visitors wander amid the outlandish statuary of the Tiger Balm Garden or prowl the stairway streets above Queen's Road and look into the thieves' market of Cat Street, where Chinese antiques from the mainland are sold at bargain prices because they cannot be brought into the U.S., which still maintains a total embargo on all goods from Red China...
...there no balm in Gilead? Is there no physician there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered...
Baltimore-born Spinster Henrietta Szold, at 49, was heartbroken because a romance with a rabbinical scholar had come to an end. As balm, her mother suggested a trip to Gilead. What Zionist Szold saw in Palestine under Turkish rule in 1909 made her personal troubles seem trivial. In Jerusalem's Old City, she saw a child's trachoma-dimmed eyes covered with flies, and when she asked the mother why the flies were not brushed away, she was told: "They will only return...