Word: iona
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sere & Yellow. In Iona, Fla., Richard Thompson, 90, calmly threw away his 40-year-old false teeth because they were getting in the way of four new molars just coming through...
Everybody had ideas. Ideas were so thick that Luckman's secretary, Miss Iona Thornton, said, "It was like being knee-deep in alligators. You never knew when one might reach out and bite...
Craftsmen and clerics alike obey a strict and simple regimen of devotion during their three months on Iona. Throughout the rest of the year both groups follow a daily Rule, and meet at intervals. While the Iona craftsmen spend their nine months on the mainland at their regular jobs, the ministers-each of whom has signed up for two years-go forth to preach in small towns, organize community projects in crowded industrial cities, or work in parishes that' are trying to apply the lona principles...
...Iona Community is not afraid to experiment with its logical conclusions. Last summer it held a week-long conference on divine healing (addressed by blind Godfrey Mowatt, the Archbishop of Canterbury's representative on the Council of Healing, and said to be gifted with the power to cure by laying on of hands). And recently lona has organized a Christian Workers League, whose members seek to work on the corporate bodies of trade unions, capturing control of them with the same infiltration tactics used by the Communists...
...MacLeod strenuously rejects suggestions that Iona is "a return" to anything. Says...