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Father Ambrose F. Rohrbacher, 49, is a grey-haired man from Milwaukee with a quiet voice and a shy manner. Behind his spectacles his eyes peer tentatively, and he looks far more of a scholar than an evangelist. Yet 15 years ago his church gave him one of the toughest U.S. missionary assignments it had. St. John's parish in North Carolina's western mountains was eight counties of hardscrabble farmland, with only 50 resident Catholics and not a single Catholic church...
...office and get a role as a Catholic priest. His voice is rich and he uses it effectively, he knows how to make people feel warm and at home, and the right words seem to grow in his mouth and fall ripely from it. He looks far more the evangelist than the scholar. Yet 60-year-old Father O'Brien has done graduate work at the University of Chicago, the Catholic University of America in Washington, B.C., the University of Illinois (Ph.D. in psychology) and Oxford. Since 1940 he has been research professor of the philosophy of religion...
...Little Rock, Ark., Evangelist Bob Jones Sr. lamented that while "there is a great spiritual hunger because everybody is scared to death . . . there is no revival, no rebirth of religion, such as there was in the days just before and after World War I. There are many conversions today, but the impact is not as strong as it used to be." Title of Evangelist Jones's sermon: "Shoving Jesus Christ Around...
...Egyptian Cooch Dancer Samia ("The Virgin of the Nile") Gamal, a onetime favorite of ex-King Farouk, chucked her husband of 18 months, Houston Real-Estate Heir Sheppard ("Abdullah") King III, and flew back to Cairo. Abdullah, flourishing a telegram ("I shall be praying for you") from Evangelist Billy Graham, followed. After truce talks in her lawyer's office, Abdullah emerged to announce their reconciliation. He had made "concessions," because "show business is in Samia's blood." From now on, he said, it would be all right for her to return to Egypt once a year to continue...
...sent homeward via Moscow and Berlin. Each was given a tweed suit to wear, and it was in these that they arrived at New York's International Airport last week. Before they are assigned to new mission duties abroad, they will have "months" of rest at home: Evangelist Smith in Marshall, Mo., Nurse Rosser in Lynchburg, Va., and Teacher Dyer in Conway...