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...Opus Dei. In Britain, where Right-Wing Tory M.P. John Biggs-Davison is an Opus Dei proponent, the Queen Mother presided six months ago at the dedication of the organization's London residence hall. Opus Dei members run a language school in Japan, teach Indians in the Peruvian Andes how to read, and founded Kenya's first racially integrated high school and a secretarial school for African girls. Total worldwide membership of the organization now approaches 60,000, of which only 25,000 are in Spain...
...International Living, but he achieves something less than--or better, very different from--the visiting anthropologist or political scientist. Indeed, Volunteers often find it fashionable to describe their environment in the kind of sweeping, value-laden generalizations which they learned to beware of in college history of sociology class. "Peruvian Indians are simple and friendly people," they will joke, or "The Ghanaians are so much smarter than the Liberians." Like all cultural descriptions the statements will be half true, but in voicing them the American abroad is not simply being flippant; he is searching for a frame of reference that...
...deep-bosomed, lynx-eyed Peruvian songstress, now retired, who also had a four-octave range. * The rest of the top ten, in order: Sean Connery, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Lemmon, Richard Burton, Cary Grant, John Wayne, Doris Day, Paul Newman, and Elvis Presley...
Died. Victor Andrés Belaúnde, 82, Peruvian Ambassador to the U.N. and uncle of his country's President Fernando Belaúnde Terry, who was among the U.N.'s founding fathers at San Francisco in 1945, played a leading role in breaking the East-West deadlock over admission of 16 new members in 1955, and saw his reward when he was elected president of the General Assembly in 1959; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Miss Young will spend her year in northern India, probably working with native children. Hamburg plans to use his grant to play and study the folk music of the Balkan countries. Reyes will live in an Indian village in the Peruvian highlands...