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Bishop Ambo was born in a grass-thatched hut in a tiny (pop. 100) coastal village of northern Papua. When he was eight his father, a hunter in the Sombaba tribe, sent him and his brother off to the Anglican mission school in nearby Gona. There the two boys joined the church, learned to read and write, and lost their tribal fear of sorcerers and spirits. Later, while he was at St. Aiden's teacher-training college near Dogura, young George Ambo felt the first stirrings of a call to the priesthood, and at the same time attracted...
...version of aid to underdeveloped countries. Her fastest growing market is overseas, where traditionally braless European women are becoming more sophisticated, and women in many lands have newly emancipated themselves into Western dress. Maidenform is opening accounts even in the bare-breasted tropical islands, e.g., in Papua and Fernando Po. Next spring Mrs. Rosenthal plans to personally invade Russia, where she was born. "I'd like the Russian women to wear Maidenform bras," she says. "They'll look better, they'll feel better, and maybe we'll get along better...
...Boston (Papua) 6, St. Louis...
...modern civilization. To some philosophers it plainly represents "an interest in, and some ability to manipulate, abstract ideas." Peers of the realm tend instinctively to see culture as "urbanity and civility"; the grubbing archeologist sees it in the shape of the potsherds and tibias that he digs up in Papua and the Tigris valley...
Secretary Goodall, a Congregationalist, was turned down for missionary work because of poor health. So he became the London Missionary Society's secretary for India, the South Seas and Papua. He likes to putter in his garden, play the violin, go to the theater with his wife, a doctor. He reads Anthony Trollope, Charles Lamb, John Donne, can take Hemingway "in small doses." On his office wall is a photograph of himself taken in India. It shows Mr. Goodall in shorts, squatting before a bearded Indian Christian. Says the International Missionary Council's new secretary: "That is symbolic...