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...eviction. He may rest assured that if 6,000,000 Jews had been given the opportunity of leaving their homes and countries alive instead of being exterminated, they would have long since been readily assimilated and settled in other parts of the world, as are their more fortunate brethren who managed to survive...
...play jokes," wrote President Nasser back in 1955. "We are in a group of circles which should be the theater of our activity-an Arab circle, the circle of the continent of Africa on which fate has placed us," and "a third circle, the circle of our Moslem brethren." Now that Nasser has played out his Arab role for all it was worth, he is turning to exploit Cairo's considerable resources in the other two circles...
...abbot, Franciscan monks, a Moslem sheik. But even the tensions of Israeli-Arab politics could not disturb the Primate. Before a crowd of 1,000 people, Bethlehem's Mayor Ayoub Musallam called on the archbishop to look carefully at the "plight and situation of the Arab refugees, our brethren who are still living in tents, huts and caves." Expertly sidestepping Ayoub's entreaty, Dr. Fisher answered: "What can I say? The troubles here and around the world have my deepest sympathy, but I have no power, no authority to right the evils of the world. Only Christ...
Champagne Finish. Even without going into the selection room, Jubilee reports, 51% of Protestant clergymen and 41% of their Roman Catholic brethren feel, according to a recent poll, that undertakers exploit bereaved families at least part of the time. The grief-stricken, notes Psychology of Funeral Service, "are less capable of reasoning than under normal conditions . . . They want to do the accepted thing . . ." And some people's idea of the accepted thing can run as high as a $19,000 casket with "Ever-Seal air, watertight construction, and Ever-Rite adjustable bed, all in a zestful champagne finish...
...Southern Baptists is perhaps less familiar. The old notions - the Bible belt, temperance leagues, hellfire evangelism and fundamentalism-are still part of the Southern Baptist scheme of things, but they are growing increasingly oldfashioned. Aside from the obvious issue of racial integration. Southern Baptists differ from their Northern brethren mainly in that 1) they are more distrustful of ecumenical movements, are reluctant to join any other Christian denomination for any purpose, 2) they tend to favor closed Communion for 'those of like faith and order" rather than open Communion. But nonconformity is the Baptist hallmark; there are leading Baptist...