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...investments in Mexico and raise large foreign loans for the Mexican government as well as for Pagliai's new aluminum plant, which is owned 35% by Pagliai's interests and 35% by the U.S.'s Alcoa. It is small wonder that he has become the foremost evangelist for U.S. investment in Mexico, and likes to needle gringos who will not take a chance: "Did the people who developed the Wild West cover their covered wagons with insurance...
Married. Virginia Leftwich ("Gigi") Graham, 17, eldest of Evangelist Billy Graham's five children; and Stephan Tchividjian, 23, son of Millionaire Financier Ara Tchividjian, the Baptist minister's most active Swiss supporter; in a religious ceremony (which followed by six days the mandatory Swiss civil ceremony) that was presided over by Graham, who also gave the bride away; in Montreux, Switzerland...
...Methodist Church. Bishop Garfield Bromley Oxnam once hinted, needed both the whirlwind evangelist and the stable, district-bound administrator; for it owed as much to George Whitefield, who "preached and passed," as to John Wesley, who "organized and abided." Methodist Oxnam, who died last week at 71 from bronchial pneumonia,* shared in the qualities of both men. No U.S. Protestant leader of his time preached more ardently about the causes he cared for; few churchmen were his equal at the homely, slighted arts of governing a district or chairing a conference...
...could of his underdog role. Playing it all the way, he compared himself to Harry Truman, giving 'em hell in 1948. "Let 'em have it, John," sang out his loyal Conservative supporters. But Diefenbaker did not have much ammunition. Lacking real issues, he turned his prairie-evangelist oratory on Liberal Party "obstructionism," cried that the Liberals had sabotaged his parliamentary program-which, in fact, the dillydallying Diefenbaker government never actually presented in full to Parliament for debate. Though he promised not to run an anti-U.S. campaign, Diefenbaker found subtle ways to bring up U.S. meddling...
Awaiting the outcome of tests for an acute intestinal infection, Protestant Evangelist Billy Graham, 44, lay bed-bound in Catholic territory-St. Francis Hospital in Honolulu. But all was concord, and the nuns in attendance made no attempt to reverse the Diet of Worms. Far from it. Said Sister Maureen, administrative chief of St. Francis: "I think, in the light of the ecumenical movement, that it's rather nice to have him here...