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There was, for a starter, the charge of threatened arson. One night not long after Padre Antonio Zamorano took over the parish in 1942, his flock, mostly peasants who lived and worked on neighboring estates, came to the church in tearful anger. A landlord, annoyed by one of his farmhand tenants, had refused to pay any of them for their work that week. The priest, whose life until then had been the unharried existence of a Catholic school teacher of algebra, Latin and Greek, was shocked. "Is weeping all you propose to do?" he roared at his parishioners...
...seemed to Padre Zamorano that the main problem of his flock was its poverty, which he blamed on the 15?-a-day wages paid by the landlords. "The villagers cannot pray on an empty stomach," he insisted, and he sought a political solution. He persuaded his parishioners not to sell their votes to the landlords and urged them to register. At length his advice caught on. Last March Catapilco's people picked a peasants' candidate to represent the village on the township council. The candidate's name: Padre Zamorano...
...Episcopal diocese of Chicago is thriving; its 100 parishes have an overall flock of 100,000, and its mission program has increased 100% during the past year. But, like many another Episcopal body politic, it suffers from pains in the joints where High-Churchman meets Low-Churchman. To the Highs, who run the diocese, the representation of one vote per parish, regardless of size, and the custom of prearranged block voting in conventions seems nothing but conducive to smooth and orderly management. To the Lows it seems unfair and undemocratic...
...still a sellout. One big reason is that Orange County is becoming heavily industrialized; people would rather live in pleasant, factory-free surroundings even though they may have to drive 30 miles to work. The story is the same in Atlanta, where builders are discovering that prospective buyers flock to developments in the rolling suburban hills, pass up those set on the flatlands. Detroit's developers are also learning that they must lay out gently winding rather than block-square streets, set houses in different positions on the lots, and leave the trees standing...
...pays nothing extra for hotel bookings an rail tickets. "The company gets a wholesale commission from the carriers and hotels.) Recent FITs: Marlene Dietrich, Cardinal Spellman, Perle Mesta (for whom American express helped arrange a trip to Moscow) and J. Fred Muggs, the TV chimp. For non-FITs who flock abroad on regular escorted tours the company offers 173 different itineraries in Europe alone. This year, for the first time, it has organized a 56-day Bible Lands pilgrimage shepherded by a Methodist minister, a golfer's tour through 19 courses in four countries under Gene Sarazen...