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Cots & Cottages. The district headquarters, a stately home usually occupied exclusively by the district chief, has been converted into a campground for the new cadres, looks like an unsupervised fraternity house with its clutter of cots and guitars. The new district chief, Mai Nhu Manh, a graduate of the National Institute of Administration, boasts only a corner bed with a mosquito net. Says a young colleague, Law Graduate Doan Thanh Liem: "The only thing that is important to us is a change in mentality, a sense of community." Only one American, a 24-year-old named Charles Sweet, is advising...
...voice he describes The Hou". "But when evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day's occupation that is known as the cocktail hour. It marks the lifeward turn. The heart wakens from coma and dyspnea ends. Its strengthening pulse is to cross over into campground, to believe that the world has not been altogether lost or, if lost, then not altogether in vain...
...peace talk, 10,000 of Jehovah's serious-minded Witnesses gathered last week in Leicester. Before the convention was over the Witnesses had added grounds for their pacifism. They complained to police that: 1) the local Home Guard had laid down a sooty smoke screen over their campground; 2) "men in khaki uniform broke into the grounds, causing damage, beating one of Jehovah's Witnesses and knocking him unconscious...
...phenomenon of U. S. civilization as quilting bees or rail splitting. Georgia has been a revivalist stronghold ever since pioneer Evangelists John Wesley and George Whitefield saved souls there in the 1730s. But lately revivals have not done so well, even in Georgia. Few years ago famed Old Salem Campground, 32 miles southeast of At lanta, a scene of Methodist evangelistic meetings since 1828, had to turn interdenominational to survive. Last week, as it wound up a rousing ten-day camp meeting, Salem seemed to have hit the sawdust trail for a comeback...