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John Paul calls Africa a continent "ripe for harvest." But like nearly everything else in Africa, Christianity, and especially Catholic Christianity, is marked by breathtaking contradictions, dramatic paradoxes, maddening diversity. Africa is a continent whose people speak more than 800 languages. They suffer from bloody national divisions, as well as unimaginable poverty and disease. Africa is a continent where some Catholics still go to the local witch doctor when their children fall sick and where a black priest has questioned the use of bread and wine in Communion because they are associated with wealthy white settlers...
...thing generally raised on city land is taxes," Charles Dudley Warner wrote 110 years ago. True then. True now. Never mind the grass, the trees, the shrubs, the vegetable gardens. What nourishes the municipal body is a bountiful tax harvest. But wait: Hartford, Conn., is raising a preposterous, or at least heretical question: Can the city dweller matter even more than the dollar itself...
...businesses which signed $1000 notes guaranteeing the bank's extension of credit include Goods Department Store, Brine's Sporting Goods, 33 Dunster St., Club Casablanca and the Harvest Restaurant...
...hour was 45 minutes and sometimes 90, and when people ate with spoons, and butter-knives were but a dream in Shreve, Crump of Low's darkest recesses. But if Alvin Toffler heard you he would scold, consigning you to the First Wave, which began with the original harvest. For Toffler is a visionary, looking out to sea at that big comber waiting to smash the sandcastles of today--this Third Wave, the biggest, most powerful, most blessed of all. "The Third Wave," he notes in the introduction, "is for those who think the human story, far from ending...
...announced that American oil drilling equipment, which Dresser Industries of Dallas had twice been stopped from exporting, was now being obtained in Italy and France. There is also little evidence that the trade bans are hurting the Soviet economy. The outlook is for a good-to-excellent Soviet grain harvest and the Kremlin insists that there will be no food shortages...