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...burning Aegean sun climbed toward high noon, fishermen from Rhodes eyed the last of the season's bikini-clad tourists from Germany and Sweden stretching languidly on the is land's white sands. Inside Rhodes's ancient, icon-laden cathedral, where the air was dusky with incense, a choir chanted the solemn hymns of the Byzantine Divine Liturgy, concelebrated by 14 bishops. Thus began the third ma jor conference of the world's 14 Ortho dox churches to take place in the past four years...
...stirring up these contradictory emotions is a mystical prelate who leads an ascetic personal life. About the only ornament in his bedroom is an icon of Christ on the cross, and his combined salaries as President and archbishop ($21,280) go to charities. Makarios is so compelling a public speaker that Cypriots flock to hear his sermons, described as "full of poetry and light and love...
...watch Dick Van Dyke, a clean-cut fellow with a frog in his throat. He looks believable. He isn't aggressively glamorous or excessively cute. He is a pretty bright guy whose brain is sometimes a ball of thumbs, and he is married to an American icon: the steady, dependable, reliable, beautiful, clean-limbed little mother who has the sort of dewy wholesomeness that every twelve-year-old boy looks forward to in a wife...
...classes are self-taught fanatics and uncouth blackguards. As destiny's dutiful darling, G.B.S. slays these asses with his jawbone. Minus his customary wit, Shaw is a nagging scold. In a final soliloquy, delivered with fine evangelistic fervor by Robert Preston, the great iconoclast pitiably begs for an icon worthy of his worship...
Hard Times. Despite the obvious slippage in Adenauer's power, few of his ambitious rivals are eager to put too much pressure on him or criticize him publicly. A Socialist leader explained his party's hesitancy by saying: "We cannot become known as icon smashers." In every rival's mind is the continued reverence for der Alte displayed by the German people. In a recent EMNID public opinion poll to choose the "World's Most Admired Man," 24% of the West Germans picked Adenauer. Albert Schweitzer came second with 8%, and leaders like Charles de Gaulle...