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...members include doctors, lawyers, journalists, Buddhist monks, professors, artists, students and occasional businessmen. Some, like Lau, own property, but most live modestly on monthly incomes that range from $80 to $600. They are inveterate organization joiners. Being a member of the alumni associations of the Lycée Petrus Ky or the Lycée Jean-Jacques Rousseau, both in Saigon, is a mark of special distinction among the elite. There are other ties of common background. Many intellectuals fled the North in 1954 when the Communists took over there. Lawyer Tran Ngoc Lieng, one of the leaders...
...knew that these bones must have been important. The cloth was of rich purple material and was worked with pure gold. I went on studying the inscriptions on the wall and deciphered them. I found the name of Peter, sometimes in the form of the initials P.E. [for Petrus Episcopus, or Bishop Peter] and as a capital P with three horizontal sidestrokes at the base of the vertical stroke-probably the origin of the key of Peter...
FRIENDS AND ENEMIES, by Naomi Mitchison (John Day; $3.95). When Petrus' schoolteacher brother is arrested for speaking against apartheid, his mother sends him for safety to his relatives in the Bechuanaland countryside. It is only 60 miles away, but the young South African boy finds many things different-most important the definitions of freedom and decency...
...maharajahs left," sighed New York Diamond Merchant Harry Winston, 71. "I'm afraid there isn't a market for enormous diamonds." Winston has bought the 601-carat Lesotho diamond, the seventh-largest gem-quality diamond known, which was found last May on a tiny claim owned by Petrus Ramoboa, 38, in the South African kingdom of Lesotho. Ramoboa carried his stone 110 miles to the capital of Maseru, with government help sold it for $302,400 to a South African merchant. Winston, the third owner, called the Lesotho diamond "practically perfect," said he will cut it into about...
...great grey church, 3,500 invited guests welcomed him with a roof-raising hosanna of cheers and applause, a response never heard before in the cathedral's staid confines. Moist-eyed at the greeting, Paul prayed briefly before the high altar; a chorus intoned the traditional Tu Es Petrus (Thou Art Peter). In response to Francis Cardinal Spellman's welcome, Paul reiterated the purpose of his mission and asked "for your prayerful support of our message of peace." Then, he came out a side door of the cathedral to walk along its stone terrace, smiling and waving...