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...Priest of Bountiful, Utah, chairman of the Republican National Committee's women's division. A worker in the G.O.P. ranks for 20 years, she has been a member of the national committee since 1944. She announced for Eisenhower before the convention, spent considerable time on the campaign train, has said she expects Ike to appoint women to some important posts...
...near San Francisco and fractured his skull on a concrete courtyard. The injury may or may not have permanently affected his brain, but for most of his life he has acted like an exceedingly odd duck. When he was eleven, he became a devotee of Buddhism; later, a Buddhist priest taught young Provoo to read, write and speak Japanese. In 1940 he went to Japan to learn more about Buddhism, lived in a Buddhist monastery near Tokyo. Back in the U.S., he enlisted in the Army and was sent to the Philippines. Nothing in John Provoo's whole...
...Compromise. Perhaps the most difficult part of life in a Communist country is to keep peace with oneself. "Nearly every day," said the priest, "a man is forced to compromise with evil and disturb the peace of mind that is within him. By frequently making compromises, he becomes morally insensible...
...witnessed the execution of an 18-year-old boy condemned by a military court. When the soldiers in the firing squad deliberately shot over the boy's head, the prison governor rushed up to kill him with his pistol. "I am not responsible," the governor shrieked at the priest, "I do as I am ordered...
Rome expects the Catholic clergy to remain at their posts in Communist countries; the priest left because he feared arrest. He knew that, if captured, he would be forced to give out the names of members of his flock who were hostile to the regime. ("I have learned by experience what these agents can do, especially those trained in Russia...