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Italy's Cinemactress Gina (Bread, Love and Dreams) Lollobrigida was embroiled as usual in a passel of law suits.* Focal point of the contests was International News Service and its Rome Bureau Chief Mike Chinigo. After Chinigo distributed I.N.S. photos of Gina cavorting in cancan dresses for a new movie, Italian magazine readers delightedly noted that the flash bulbs used in making the pictures had penetrated her lingerie. Litigious Gina flew into a mercurial tizzy and vainly tried to get the negatives back; her irate husband, Mirko Skofic, dropped into Chinigo's office for a heated, futile chat...
...Face. The U.S., which channels millions in aid to the Phibun government, and U.S. businessmen who sell their shiny products and soft drinks in Thailand's hospitable atmosphere, also seem content to let things ramble along in their amiable Siamese way. (Since Bangkok has become a kind of focal point for U.S. activity in Southeast Asia, no American has any standing whatever in Bangkok society if he is not rumored to work...
...wholly convincing. If what TIME means is that the Anglican Communion embraces extremes in doctrine, polity and politics, that is a fact . . . On the other hand, if TIME is echoing the claim, so dear to many Anglicans, that the Anglican Communion has a providentially destined role as the focal point of Christian Unity-a "bridge-church" which shall ultimately unite traditional Catholicism, whether Roman or Eastern, and the varieties of Protestantism-this whole contention requires "existential" scrutiny...
...inspirations of the great Swede appealed to many an intellectual who did not join the New Church; Emerson saw him as "a colossal soul [who] lies vast abroad on his times, uncomprehended by them, and requires a long focal distance to be seen." Henry James called him "the sanest and most far-reaching intellect." Last week the Church of the New Jerusalem met in Manhattan for its 131st General Convention. On hand were 250 delegates, including the Rev. Yonezo Doi, whose flock in Japan and Korea numbers 3,400 Swedenborgians. Meeting in their trim, light-filled church off Park Avenue...
...prospective members of the proposed "Harvard Conservative League," both privately and in public statements, have forced me to reconsider my connection with the group. As one of the original six active organizers, it has been my belief that the organization would serve as an educational organ and as a focal point for the views of many members of the University which presently have no organized outlet...