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Beyond the archdemonic Hitlers, Updike points out, are the evils that persist in Everyman: "Is not destructiveness within us as a positive lust, an active hatred? Who does not exult in fires, collapses, the ruin and death of friends? What man can exempt from his purest sexual passion and most chivalrous love, the itch to defile...
While differences persist, all three groups believe in the necessity of a personal "Baptism in the Holy Spirit" in order to lead a fully Christian life. The initiate undergoes this "Spirit Baptism" by visiting a Pentecostal meeting at which other participants join in a laying on of hands. For Catholics, this is not a new sacrament, nor does it supersede the rituals of Baptism and Confirmation; rather, as a Charismatic bishop says, it "makes them operative...
...What was considered virility at 25 becomes lechery at 65." As a result, says Gene Borowitz, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois, "the elderly often try to suppress their sexual desires." That needlessly impoverishes their lives; according to Masters and Johnson, sexual interest and capacity can persist into the 80s and beyond...
There is no guarantee that the peace will persist. At week's end, the dollar declined slightly again, and a new gold rush could start at any time. Industrial demand for the metal is rising faster than supply. Existing stocks are so small -according to one estimate, the entire trading supply would fit nicely on the stage of Radio City Music Hall-that speculators can drive the price up or down almost at will. And there is always the danger that in the ensuing monetary turmoil, some government will conclude that its currency is floating to an unrealistically high...
...bulging money bags with a nervous ambivalence-as both a promise of much-needed investments and a threat to their control of local enterprises. Lately, Vesco's name has been linked with almost every sizable business deal in the country. Despite Vesco's denials, rumors persist that through various fronts he has bought a gas station network from Gulf Oil Corp., a big piece of San Jose's Royal Dutch Hotel, the El Molina coffee plantation, and a share of the anti-Figueres newspaper, La Nacion. There even are wild rumors that he has linked up with...