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...nobody. When Floyd tries to recruit some beer-guzzling publicans for his choir, he scandalizes the pastor, who is devoted to muscular Christianity ("Yes, Christ is alive today, out in the field batting for us"). When Floyd laces into his choirwomen for turning the house of prayer into a den of cake sellers, the outraged ladies sing like hornets. Bank Teller Floyd has always regarded his life as a deposit for his wife and three kids, but when he fails to expire on schedule ("I wish he'd die and have done with"), they up and leave...
...once luxurious Hotel des Indes, the Dutch manager and his staff were seized. A Dutchman who tried to haul down an Indonesian flag planted atop the Jacobson van den Berg Trading Co. was arrested on the spot. KLM Royal Dutch Airlines' landing rights were summarily canceled. Some 100 KLM employees and families prepared to depart...
...turkey; Nixon's mother, Mrs. Hannah Nixon, had baked an apple pie; daughter "Tricia" had made paper nut holders shaped like Pilgrims' hats. Daughter Julie had worked all morning making place cards of yellow paper, taken from the work pads in her father's den, brightly colored with crayon. The Vice President's read: "Be Strong Be Wise Be Thoughtful Be Kind." After dinner, Nixon and U.S. Attorney General Rogers watched football on television (Texas 9, Texas A. & M. 7). Late that afternoon, returning from a walk down Forest Lane, Tricia wanted to play basketball, hunted...
Priests passing through the lobby of Washington's Shoreham Hotel last week found themselves directed to the specially set-up bar (beer and soft drinks) by a sign advising: "Getting wild? You'll be tamed at the Lion's Den." Except for this convention-style japery, the eighth annual meeting of Roman Catholic mission-sending societies was occupied with sober reports, many of them dealing with a single mission area: Africa...
...Thai newspapers headlined the proposition, ideas poured in for everything from an opium den (rejected) to importing Linotypes (encouraged). Last week, when Graham reached India, where he offered to launch five more borrowers, the influential Times of India printed his picture on the front page. Scores of young businessmen who missed him in Calcutta pursued him to New Delhi, where his mailbox at the Imperial Hotel was jammed with 500 loan applications before he arrived, and the telephone never stopped ringing...