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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When 50-year-old Umberto Righetti, a pastor of the Evangelical Church, rented a second-floor apartment in the 15th century baronial palace of Fondi (pop. 19,000), 75 miles south of Rome, nobody told him about the door. In his two-room apartment he conducted Protestant religious services twice a week, and soon had a flock of 500. He started a free Bible school for 70 children, some of whom had been attending the local Roman Catholic parochial school. In heavily Catholic Italy all this was distressing news to the parish priest. Don Pietro Santanto-nio. "Go away, leave...
Neglected Neighbors. Real grievances as well as Communist leadership went into South America's anti-Nixon demonstrations, and Peru (pop. 9,900,000) has its share of troubles. Historically, Peru is a firm U.S. ally. Conservative President Manuel Prado is pro-U-S.-and so is the big, left-of-center APRA Party, which in a marriage of convenience put Prado into office two years...
...course called "Refresher Math" at James Lick High School in San Jose, Calif, (pop. 150,000) is a dumping ground for the supposedly unteachable-and the untaught. The math ability of its students runs to about fifth-grade level; their IQs are the school's lowest. This year a phenomenon startling enough to be called a "miracle" by James Lick Principal William Baker is taking place: Refresher Math students are beginning to learn math. Catalyst of the change is a wiry, tireless 36-year-old Turk named Tanju Ergil, who does not own a teaching certificate...
...result is that many a televiewer firmly believes in the existence of Overlook, Verdict's fictitious small city (pop. 125,000), its malefactors and martyrs, its country club and Skid Row, the awful goings-on at the outlying Mountain View Inn. Recalls Director Paul: "One of our lawyers got a long-distance call from a Cleveland woman. She wanted to pay his poor client's legal...
...mother when he was three. Long before he could read words, he learned to read notes. At four, he appeared in his first public recital at Shreveport's Dodd College, playing Bach's Prelude in C Major. When he was six, the family moved to Kilgore, Texas (pop. 10,500). His father, who had hoped Van might be a medical missionary, decided he was headed for a musical career after all, had a studio built for him on the back of the garage, equipped it with a piano. The boy practiced for an hour before going to school...