Word: madagascar
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...glasses, he often fails to recognize people who shake his hand, and he suffers momentary blindness when he steps from shadow into sunlight. The old soldier maintains a killing pace: a vast correspondence, reams of official reading matter and constant travel (this week he is on another trip to Madagascar) that would exhaust many a younger...
...city that Calvin had made "the Protestant Rome" flocked church leaders from 75 Reformed and Presbyterian churches, representing 45 million Protestants who acknowledge Calvin as their spiritual father. Dutch Reformed mingled with Hungarian Calvinist; delegates from churches in Poland, Rumania, Australia and Madagascar exchanged greetings with delegates from the U.S. and from the Church of Scotland. Said Dr. Harrison Ray Anderson, pastor of Chicago's Fourth Presbyterian Church: "The Reformist and Presbyterian churches are still the most international of the Protestant groups...
Strolling through a trade fair in Casablanca two years ago. Morocco's King Mohammed V paused before a model of a DC-6 airliner, sighed longingly: "One day I shall return." "Return where, Your Majesty?" asked an aide. "To Madagascar, of course," replied the King...
...Madagascar seemed the last place the King would want to see again. It is the Indian Ocean island to which the French had exiled the then Sultan in 1953, and kept him isolated for two years until his triumphal return to preside over Morocco's independence...
King with thankful tears, and Corsican officials toasted the occasion in champagne. At week's end Mohammed V flew on to Madagascar, confident that Morocco's squabbling politicians would not seize on his absence to stir trouble back home, hopeful that his symbolic journey would remind them of the unity his people once shared...