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...Cursillo (pronounced koor-see-yo) is the fastest-growing movement in the Roman Catholic Church. Devised by Spanish Psychologist Eduardo Bonnin and the Rt. Rev. Juan Hervas, then Bishop of Palma, as a means of reviving the faith among laggard laymen, the Cursillo was first held at the Monastery of San Honorato on Majorca in 1949. Cursillos have spread rapidly throughout Spain, Latin America and Western Europe, were brought to the U.S. seven years ago by two Spanish air cadets studying at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas. The first U.S. Cursillos were mostly given in Spanish, but now they...
...lifetime. It is, literally, the blinking of an eye - an in significant instant to people who measure their lives in minutes or months or 40-hour weeks. But not to Robert Lee Hayes, 21, a husky sprinter from Florida A. & M. University. Hayes is the world's fastest human, a title he holds by virtue of the fragile fact that he can run 60 yds. or 100 yds. a tenth of a second faster than anybody else who ever lived...
...million last year from renting and leasing 62,800 cars and trucks). Avis helped boost its revenues 11% last year with its ad campaign, turned a 1962 loss of $3,000,000 into a $1,200,000 profit. National is also making steady gains. The budget renters are growing fastest of all. The largest of them, Chicago-based Budget Rent-A-Car System, has gone from $600,000 in revenues four years ago to an anticipated $18 million this year...
Clay's mouth was practically supersonic. "I am the greatest," he chattered. "I am the prettiest. I am so pretty that I can hardly stand to look at myself. I am the fastest. I am the fastest heavyweight that you ever did see. Next to me, Liston will look like a dump truck...
...general manager of Chrysler Corp.'s Chrysler-Plymouth division, Philip N. Buckminster, 47, runs a bigger operation than the chief executive of many a major company. Buckminster is considered one of the fastest-rising automen in Detroit, has become the favorite troubleshooter of Chrysler President Lynn Townsend. Under Buckminster, the Chrysler-Plymouth Division is readying a racy new sports car, the Barracuda, for Spring introduction; last week the division raised its prestige with a 1-2-3 upset victory for Plymouth over Ford in the Daytona 500 stock car race. Trained as a financial analyst at Ford under Robert...