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...California, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Jersey, New York and Ohio. To shore up his campaign in the urban Northeast, Carter has set up at his Atlanta headquarters an "ethnic desk" staffed by Terry Sunday, formerly a staffer at the National Conference of Catholic Bishops, and Victoria Mongiardo, a nun who used to work for the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CAMPAIGN: Coming Out Swinging | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

Breaking Bread. Clad in her spotless blue-bordered white sari, Mother Teresa, who ministers to the starving people of Calcutta (TIME, Dec. 29), was the cynosure of the congress. At the world-hunger symposium, the diminutive nun prayed over a table laden with bread, then broke a loaf of bread and invited those in attendance to do likewise to symbolize the sharing of food. To her, both the U.S. and India are in deep trouble. "There is spiritual poverty and there is material poverty," she told her audience of 6,000 faithful, "and I think each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Catholic Olympics | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...filmed: Casanova and a challenger engaging in a copulatory contest, sharing two whores each in a bed that crashes and skitters right out of the room; Casanova making love to a mechanical doll whose head spins wildly at the climactic moment; the rake's encounter with a worldly nun who is expert in 39 sexual positions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The New Fellini: Venice on Ice | 5/17/1976 | See Source »

...that Patty had had some problems of her own before she was abducted. He got West to acknowledge that Patty had attended five schools in six years, in part because of disciplinary problems. "Didn't you know that she was kicked out of Sacred Heart for telling a nun to go to hell?" asked Bancroft. Patty smiled; West admitted that he knew it. West also said that Patty had smoked marijuana with her fiancé Steven Weed-a point that stimulated Bailey to interject: "Is this to say anyone who 'toots' grass is a bank robber?" West...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Battle over Patty's Mind | 3/8/1976 | See Source »

...pulls wings off flies and a sister who carries a onearmed doll confess their mutual hatred in starkly unfunny terms. A similarly violent mood underlies "The Hard Time," a sort of Blackboard Jungle in reverse, with the students--both hoodlums and teacher's pets--successfully defying a whitehabited singing nun...

Author: By Julia M. Klein, | Title: Bicentennial Folly | 3/1/1976 | See Source »

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