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...Recife's spunky little (5 ft. 4 in., 120 Ibs.) Archbishop Helder. Pessõa Cámara, 57, the church fought back. Four months ago, Cãmara refused to officiate at a special Mass celebrating the second anniversary of the coup because local army headquarters had demanded that he submit his sermon to censorship. In July, Dom Helder led 16 Northeastern bishops in a statement criticizing the regime for "injustices committed against the workers, whether they concern questions of salaries, pressure against class organization, or the innumerable transgressions of labor laws...
That was too much for Fourth Army Commander General Damasceno Portugal, the top officer in the Northeast. Portugal promptly prohibited Recife newspapers from publishing the statement, ordered up an editorial attack on Cámara. Meantime, one of his trusted local commanders sent out secret circulars to Northeast churchmen branding Dom Helder an "agitator of men and ideas" and a "leftist"-and even accusing him of promoting the development of the rival Anglican Church. Cámara's response was to demand television time so that he and his bishops could prove they were not Communists. Snapped Bishop Antonio...
Died. John V. Mara, 57, president of the National Football League's New York Giants founded in 1925 by his father Timothy, who inherited the team in 1930 and with his younger brother Wellington led it through the lean years of World War II and a costly 1946-49 fight against the upstart All-America Conference to the top of the heap with an unequaled 14 divisional and three world championships and an estimated value of $10 million; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Miller's hero, as usual, is called Henry Miller. As usual, he works by day hiring messengers for the Cosmococcic Telegraph Co., while by night, he foozles about Manhattan. He meets Mara, the beautiful dance-hall girl. Zap. He weaves home to his wife. Zap. Back to Mara. Zap, zap, zap. An old girl friend and her roommate. Certainly. Then a girl in a restaurant. And so it zaps, until the reader wishes that either Writer Miller or Hero Miller had spent an occasional evening playing bridge...
...Recife is the key post. The Northeast is in a state of prerevolution." Brazil's leading liberal Catholic intellectual, Alceu Amoroso Lima finds Helder Câmara to be "the right man for the right place. He is earmarked to become a cardinal. He can no longer be considered a purely Brazilian church personality...