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HONG KONG (140,000 Christians, 45,000 Protestants). This is the last citadel of British colonialism, and "for those who would understand what is behind the rest of Asia's anticolonial frenzy. Hong Kong is the place to get a bellyful of the original offense." But the British have turned generously to help the 667,000 refugees from Communist China. So have the Christian missions from the U.S.. "healing, counseling, running schools, staffing nurseries, opening clinics, building family centers." The most valuable mission activity in terms of the future, says Gill, is being done on university campuses supported...
...Tunnel of Love (by Joseph Fields and Peter DeVries; based on DeVries' novel) suggests at the outset a satiric cannonade on that citadel of Exurbanites and seacoast bohemia, Westport, Conn. But it soon abandons anything so highbrow and becomes an illustrated jokebook on styles in childbearing. When married women aren't having children, unmarried ones are; or couples are adopting; or the sins of the fathers become the adoptees of their wives...
...Babylon, Sodom and imperial Rome, New York lies waiting for a man of God to bring the city to its knees. That, at any rate, is the way Billy Graham sees it. Ever since he began his worldwide ministry, Evangelist Graham has catalogued New York City as a citadel of Satan he would have to tackle some day. He has decided to begin this spring. Billy and his twelve-man team have signed up Madison Square Garden from May 15 through mid-October to preach salvation to New Yorkers as he has preached it in London, Glasgow, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris...
This book, well made, clearly printed, and fitting the hand easily, is written to join the several other Cronin novels (Hatter's Castle, The Citadel, Keys of the Kingdom) high up on the bestseller lists. In an accompanying blurb, Cronin declares that of all his novels "this book, more than any other, was written from the heart...
...small "brush wars" involving tactical atomic weapons. Said he: "We'd be suckers if we attempted to fight the Russians with only conventional weapons." What about McAuliffe's fellow cadet at West Point, New York-born General (ret.) Mark W. Clark, president of South Carolina's Citadel, whose Dixieland views now include a belief that racial integration harms the military? "I don't agree with him at all," replied Washington, D.C.-born McAuliffe. "The integration of the Negro in the armed forces has worked out very well...