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Confronted with a dilemma, Evangelist Billy Graham, vacationing at Jamaica's fashionable Round Hill resort, faced it squarely. Sizzling with a bad case of sunburn, he was advised that the best remedy is whisky. But Billy decided against a Scotch skin rub: "Can you imagine what the hotel servants would think if they came into my room and found me reeking of whisky? Why, it would be all over the hotel that Billy Graham was drunk...
...Engstrom of the Evangelical Free Church, president of Youth for Christ International, urged his plaid-shirted and bobby-soxed audience to write down the motto: "Christ Constantly in Command, Christ Completely in Control," and to put it into practice at school, at home, "and in parked cars on dates." Evangelist Billy Graham, a onetime Youth for Christ member, exhorted them to "turn your life over to Christ"-minds, eyes, ears ("Do you listen to dirty jokes?") and sex life ("The sex instinct in you is the strongest now it will ever be . . . Give your sex life to Christ...
...Pandit. Gallup pulse takers announced the results of their similar quest for the world's "most admired" man. The most-for the seventh straight year: Dwight D. Eisenhower (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Next nine in the procession: Sir Winston Churchill, Dr. Albert Schweitzer, Harry S. Truman, Pope John XXIII, Evangelist Billy Graham, cancer-stricken Jungle Physician Thomas Dooley (TIME, Aug. 31), Herbert Hoover, Richard Nixon, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur...
...Baptist Evangelist Billy Graham agreed. Birth control, he said, is one of the ways of coping with the "terrifying and tragic" problem of overpopulation; there is nothing in Scripture that prohibits its responsible use, and most Americans practice it, "whether they are Protestants or Roman Catholics...
...Bhengu set himself to reduce crime in Johannesburg by 25%. He is still far short of his goal, but the attempt itself is remarkable in a frightened city (pop. 1,000,000) where 100,000 firearms are privately owned and virtually every house has a watchdog. In his preaching, Evangelist Bhengu is careful not to set up a kind of reverse color line. White preachers, he tells his native listeners, have the word too. "When you get hold of a bottle of gin. it comes in a white bottle. It tastes good. Sometimes you pour some into a black bottle...