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...City Jungle. Lanier is one of many experiment-minded clergymen who are trying to find more effective ways of communicating the Gospel in the jungles of the deChristianized city. A descendant of his namesake the poet, and a distant cousin of Playwright Tennessee Williams, Lanier was raised as a Baptist in Florida, spent an adult decade of "militant agnosticism" before deciding, in 1950, to study for the Episcopal priesthood. After a tour of clerical duty in the Virgin Islands and at Manhattan's fashionable St. Thomas' church he became convinced that "the church in its parochial form...
...underdeveloped nations, and this summer pledged more if necessary. It would like a permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council. Its government has been considering offering Japanese troops as a permanent U.N. security force. It would like to be given a free hand with its giant cultural cousin, Red China, both to win a place in the potentially enormous Chinese market and to try to conciliate between Peking and the West...
...began some eight years ago, when young Mary Quant, now, at 30, the doyenne of the, group, grew weary of wearing her cousin's castoffs, set up shop, sewing and selling her own designs. Instantly British teenagers, themselves weary of the butch look, flocked to the tiny Chelsea workroom, emerged looking more like Cossacks and guardsmen, sailors and hockey players. Audacious in concept, vivid in execution and realistically priced ($20 and up), Mary Quant's offbeat styles (a typical dress trimmed red flannel with black lace, included a striped bodice and a quilted hem) caused such a local...
Quiet Wishes. No one expects violent explosions in Jamaica in the near future. Jamaicans are a smiling, gentle people with an abiding respect for British-style law and order. Yet Bustamante's cousin and arch political rival, Norman Washington Manley, 71, has a point when he charges that the government has failed to get the country moving as fast as it should. In private, some of Bustamante's own ministers tend to agree...
...attempt to humble Bellotti later on. Party harmony, though, has been assured at least through this Tuesday. Peabody has agreed to be cooperative about his lame-duck appointments, Bellotti has agreed to be cooperative when Peabody tries to appoint his staff to various judgeships, and Joe Gargan, Kennedy's cousin, has been named Bellotti's campaign manager...