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...Notable examples: Vince, Dom and Joe DiMaggio: Dizzy and Daffy Dean...
...always played a weighty role in the island's affairs (present population: 330,000, of whom 98% are Catholic). But in recent times, as last week's elections again demonstrated, the church's influence has been challenged sharply by the Maltese Labor Party and its leader, Dom Mintoff, a Rhodes scholar who once studied for the priesthood...
...have found it cheaper to farm the work out to local tradesmen. Even the work-minded monks of the New Camaldoli Hermitage at Big Sur, Calif., agreed to forswear tradition and let secular hands tackle the job of cell building. "We were given bricks to build our houses," says Dom Pedro Rebello sorrowfully, "but everything ended in a chaos of mortar and rubble...
...Dom Tiago lives in a drafty, 200-year-old palace of masonry and wood with huge oak doors and walls four feet thick, "to keep out the Protestants." It boasts "a complete, live collection of every known tropical insect." On the office wall he keeps a picture of a pre-eminent Catholic churchman whom he calls "Johnny." He admits that he lives more like a hermit than a bishop. He has no servants, eats lunch out with priests or nuns, and for dinner has only a bowl of oatmeal-followed sometimes by a cigar and a glass of sherry...
...Dom Tiago's pet project at the moment is a seminary at Santarém to teach high school and junior college subjects. A 56-room building is going up: "I have 51 men working on it-as long as I stand there watching them." Ryan gets money for his projects on hat-passing trips to the U.S., where he inevitably confronts "a little old lady who asks, 'Do the natives wear clothes?' It takes all my will power to keep from snapping back, 'Yes, they do, you lascivious-minded old hypocrite.' " To people...