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...late 1920s. But only in recent years, as the possibilities of progress and the perils of Communism have become increasingly clear to many Latin Americans, has Christian Democracy begun to show vitality. Chile, where the party has been operating for 25 uninterrupted years, is still its strongest bastion. Led by dynamic Senator Eduardo Frei, 50, the Christian Democrats won 20% of the vote in the 1958 presidential elections, believe that "within a few years" they will be the strongest of Chile's five major parties...
...houses grow smaller and families larger, man's home is fast becoming his kiddies' castle. Already teen-agers have overrun the living room, kitchen and den, driving their parents into the last bastion of apartness-the fortress bedroom...
...members. So successful a hui manager was Chinn Ho that he cracked Hawaii's bamboo curtain and gained a toehold in the haole establishment; he was the'first Oriental named a trustee of one of Hawaii's landed estates, the huge Robinson estate, a bastion of Hawaiian conservatism, first Oriental invited to join the businessmen's Commercial Club, the first named President of the Honolulu Stock Exchange...
...than 80,000 priests a century ago. has fewer than 10,000 today. Italy's priests, 18% of whom are over 70, are dying faster than they can be replaced: in Florence, for instance. 135 priests died and only 85 were ordained during the past decade. In Genoa, bastion of crusading Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, seminary attendance has dropped 40% in the past 20 years, and 80% of the seminarians drop out before completing the twelve-year course. The seminaries in Turin are two-thirds empty...
...Another test of U.S. intentions toward Latin America is the kind of ambassadors it sends. Kennedy's choice for Costa Rica, a notable bastion of representative democracy in Latin America: El Paso Mayor Raymond Lawrence Telles Jr., 45, a Spanish-speaking fourth-generation American of Mexican ancestry. An Air Force lieutenant colonel in World War II, Telles handled aviation lend-lease supplies to Latin America, later served as an aide to both President Truman and General Eisenhower on visits to Mexico...