Word: home-grown
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...faithful Shintoist gets spiritual guidance and protection in his own way of life. Shinto has no known founder, no Bible, no dogma, no regular churchgoing. Japan's only major home-grown religion, it tolerates and even welcomes joint membership by Buddhists (who number 47,275,000 in Japan) and Christians (605,000), counts its own numbers vaguely a's 13,600,000 "parishioner households...
Inevitably, there have been complaints from Miamians. But despite charges to the contrary, the city's crime rate has actually declined in the past year, even though the refugee population has nearly tripled. Some home-grown Miamians, both Negro and white, grumble that an American woman with four children can get only $81 in relief each month, while a Cuban mother of one can draw up to $85. Explains Art Lazell, director of Miami's Cuban Refugee Emergency Center: "For the Cuban woman, the level of need is greater. You can usually assume the person drawing...
Tackles: Merlin Olsen, 21, Utah State; 6 ft. 5 in., 265 Ibs. Fate Echols, 22, Northwestern; 6 ft. 1 in., 255 Ibs. The nation's No. 1 college lineman, Olsen is a home-grown giant from Logan, Utah, who boasts brains as well as brawn: his scholastic average (3.96 out of a possible 4) is the highest in Utah State's College of Business. Tough and tenacious ("He doesn't block; he explodes"), Olsen could play either offense or defense with the pros. Smaller but extremely fast, Echols probably will be shifted to guard if he accepts...
...told, five major U.S. agencies-the newest comers: Foote, Cone & Belding and Doyle Dane Bernbach-are now operating in West Germany. Not unnaturally, home-grown German agencies are wearying of the transatlantic competition. Sighed one U.S. agency chief in Frankfurt last week: "The German admen aren't so friendly these days. Like they don't even talk...
Underlying the gaiety was a note of anxiety. Kennedy and Shriver were painfully aware of the criticism, both at home and abroad, that already surrounded the youthful missionaries of democracy. Communist propagandists had been hard at work for months, denigrating the Peace Corps. Some home-grown critics were just as harsh. "The thing is so disproportionate as to be nonsensical," editorialized the Wall Street Journal. "What person, except perhaps the very young themselves, can really believe that an Africa aflame with violence will have its fires quenched because some Harvard boy or Vassar girl lives...