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...population into a state of narcolepsy. FIFA, the august and powerful Federation Internationale de Football Association, has almost as many member countries as the United Nations (146 to 149) and probably more active communicants than any religion. Its officials claim that well over a billion people watched, in person or on TV, some part of the month-long World Cup, the eleventh such international competition (the first was held in Uruguay in 1930; 13 nations participated, and Uruguay won). Leaving aside the Chinese (who did not ante up for the TV rights), suckling infants and most women-soccer is almost...
FIFA's insistence on color is understandable. El Mundial-'The Global," as this competition was called-really is a world cup. A young Italian electrician working in South Africa saw the '74 Cup final on television, resolved to see the next final in person, and last week, well pleased with his bargain, had spent four years of savings on a month of soccer. It is a safe bet that some fans some where watching Sunday's game were making the same daft but splendid decision. And it is an even safer bet that kids everywhere, especially...
...many questions?and he can ask more questions than any three-year-old?that the director didn't know whether he was coming or going. I think Warren's drive to be a producer was that he feared he would get into more films where the person in authority didn't quite know what he was doing." Beatty agrees: "Once I became interested in stories and getting stories told, I realized I had to be a producer to get them told in the right...
...Hollywood lingo or the latest L.A. hip-speak, Beatty likes to take long pauses in the middle of sentences to make sure that he doesn't say more than he intends. In action, he is fast and effective. Lillian Hellman describes Beatty as a "foul-weather friend," the first person to call in a crisis. Says Mike Nichols: "He can make 65 calls in three hours and plan anything." Beatty is also a health-food enthusiast and, as Nichols notes, "a postgraduate hypochondriac." He tells of the time that Beatty crossed wires making a call and overheard two strangers discussing...
What church claims to have 6 million U.S. clergy but only one article of faith, a belief in "that which is right and every person's right to interpret what is right"? Answer: the Universal Life Church, which was "born out of the vision of its Founder Kirby S. Hensley" in 1962. Universal Life is only one of 37 groups catalogued in a fascinating new manual entitled Religious Requirements and Practices. Its earnest notes on Hensley's "church" neglect to mention that it is the notorious ordination-by-mail mill that for the past decade has conferred...