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...Cardinal Disapproves. It is to this foreign resistance that the Witnesses are addressing themselves this summer-one of the few summers left, they feel, before Armageddon. In 24 massive rallies, starting June 30 in Milwaukee, they are rolling eastward around the world: New York, London, Stockholm, currently Milan and Munich, then on to Jerusalem, Hong Kong, Singapore and Honolulu, ending in Pasadena in September. In Germany, where the sect numbers 79,000 (compared with 308,000 in the U.S.) and can boast that 12,000 of the faithful served time in Nazi concentration camps, opposition is particularly high...
Ignis was built by Giovanni Borghi, 52, who had a small appliance business with his father before World War II, started building a plant near Milan before the shooting was over in anticipation of a postwar demand for consumer goods. The company's first product was an electric range (Ignis means fire in Latin), but Borghi switched to refrigerators ten years ago. He has since expanded so fast that his factories continually smell of fresh paint. A stocky, bull-necked man who occasionally strips to the waist and works on a machine in his factory, Borghi relentlessly replaced...
Italian household without one. Borghi has come out with his own line of washing machines, but he is up against a competitor who is just as sharp at cost cutting and underselling as he is: the Candy Co. of Brugherio, also near Milan. In four years Candy has expanded production from 200 washing machines a day to 1,400 and, despite a rise of 55% in labor costs, dropped the prices on its semiautomatic model...
...Montini, the church's task was to convert Communists, not combat them -and the weapons of conversion were spiritual. He invited Franciscan and Jesuit preachers to conduct Billy Graham-style crusades on Milan's streets, and in a city with more than 1,000 churches, added at least ten each year -primarily in the new suburbs. For Montini, the missionary task was to conquer through Christian love those "unhappy ones who gather behind Marx," to reassure them that, as Jesus "still loves them strongly, immensely, divinely," so the church supports "the profound need for a new and worthwhile...
...that he hoped to follow the example of his three immediate predecessors: "Pius XI for his strong will. Pius XII for his knowledge and wisdom. John XXIII for his limitless goodness." There is no question of his willingness to pursue the course John took. At a funeral oration in Milan, he said: "Pope John has shown us some paths which it will be wise to follow. Death cannot stifle the spirit which he so infused in our era. Can we turn away from paths so masterfully traced? It seems to me we cannot...