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...more than 30,000-is much smaller than the German movement. But it has achieved striking success in mining pockets of discontent that have been neglected by both the Gaullist regime and the establishment left. A variety of Marxist fronts-Trotskyites, Jean-Claude Navatte's Marxist-evangelist Christian Student Youth organization-helped transform hundreds of France's often-bored secondary-school students into a politically conscious, slogan-chanting pressure group powerful enough to put the government on the defensive and to force it to resubmit a controversial new draft law to the legislature (TIME, April 16). Radicals have...
...became such a fervent evangelist that the Inquisition imprisoned and examined him more than once about his life, teaching and theology. Perturbed, he left for Paris, where he spent seven years at the university, became "Master Ignatius," and gathered around him the first of his permanent companions, among them a young Spanish nobleman named Francis Xavier...
...Crusty Old Geezer. He has lost most of his marbles, but is testily ad amant about the rules of checkers. There is the Boy in Quest of Identity, who is trying to track down a missing grandfather. And good for more than a few laughs is the Health-Food Evangelist, played by Mari Gorman with the abrasive tongue and cocked shoulders of a Marine sergeant...
...Anything Goes, Billy Crocker, sometime employee of the wealthy Mr. Elisha Whitney, comes to the liner to see off his boss and the evangelist-turned-torch singer, Reno Sweeney. Finding that Hope Harcourt, the love of his life, is aboard ship, Billy decides to travel, too. When Moonface Martin, travelling with submachine gun in violin case as the Reverend Doctor Moon, provides Billy with a ticket and berth, more problems are created than solved. The ticket belonged to Public Enemy Number 1, who never showed for the voyage; now everyone is chasing after Billy, who becomes sailor, chef...
...world is Evangelist Billy Graham's parish. At his insistence the South African government temporarily abrogated its apartheid laws in order to let blacks and whites mix at an international conference in Durban on mission and evangelism. In his keynote address to the 1,500 delegates and observers, Graham last week described the gathering as a watershed: "You will never be the same. South Africa will never be the same." Later, before a Johannesburg rally for 80,000, the sometime White House preacher let off some steam about crime and punishment back home...