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...notion that a shepherd of souls should wear a workman's coveralls first got important attention one evening in 1943, when Paris' Emmanuel Cardinal Suhard, who died in 1949, picked up a book written by two of his abbes and sat up the entire night reading it. Authors Henri Godin and Yvan Daniel contended that the French working class, to a large extent seduced by Marxist ideology, regarded the church as reactionary and the Christian faith as irrelevant. The authors argued that priests should go to work in factories and live among workers' families while preaching...
...succeed by producing new goods or services. Sir Mobolaji Bank-Anthony, 59, known as "The Black Englishman" for his impeccable manners and imperturbable air, began by importing cuckoo clocks and marble statues. He now controls or owns part of ten companies, including a tanker fleet and a charter airline. Emmanuel Akwiwu, 43, earned law degrees at Cambridge; returning home just as Nigeria's oil boom began he organized a company that now has 70 vehicles, hauls oil rigs and supplies for British Petroleum Ltd. Chief Shafi Lawal Edu, 54, who is president of Lagos' chamber of commerce...
Pandemonium broke loose on the floor as Deputies shouted angrily, and finally, with only 47 Deputies present, Speaker Emmanuel Baklatzis, a Papandreou supporter, declared the session suspended on the grounds that "lack of a quorum constitutes an indication of disapproval of the government...
...thus by-passing the Ways and Means Committee, though it failed to be passed after that. At the same time, however, the Becker (school prayer) amendment, which would unquestionably have passed if it had gotten to the floor, was bottled up in the Judiciary Committee by New York liberal Emmanuel Cellar. After the initial uproar and intense agitation for the amendment had died down, Cellar held hearings on the bill and got the establishment-constitutionalist and more responsible church leaders--who had been slow to begin exerting pressure against the school prayer amendments--to convince enough Committee members so that...
...Club. Since 1931, under his own name and a dozen pseudonyms of wonderful ordinariness,* he has managed to write nearly 500 books. To his long list of heroes-Gideon of the Yard, The Toff, Handsome West-Creasey here adds his first new one in ten years. He is Dr. Emmanuel ("Manny") Cellini, psychiatrist first, detective second, who in this adventure is rung in to help not the bobbies but the criminal's neurotic parents. For them and for the reader, Cellini has an almost revolutionary message: some people are not spoiled by their environment or their families-they...