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...corridors of the United Nations-whether in New York or Paris-have grown used to an untidy priest. He is tall and strikingly handsome. He has that reserved, proconsular look, the bony nose, the clear eyes, the careless hair that the British prefer for their archetype rather than the beery John Bull. His speech is slow and unemotional. He is never without a briefcase that bulges, like a refugee's pack, with badly duplicated memoranda and official reports. He is the Rev. Michael Scott; he has no official position, not even a parish. He can point to few positive...
...Chosen Race. A stodgy Boer with a pale, square face and thick, white hands, Daniel Malan is the self-appointed high priest of the Afrikaners and of apartheid. He was born 78 years ago on a Cape Province farm called Allesverloren ("Everything Is Lost"), and attended the same Sunday school as his lifelong public enemy: Jan Christian Smuts, South Africa's greatest Prime Minister. Smuts, who fought the British in the Boer War, lived to become their best South African friend; Malan, who never heard a shot fired, is a violent Anglophobe...
...office." In Rome, an official spokesman again said that 1) the Vatican had no knowledge of Pegler's ever talking with any high official, and 2) there is no such thing as a Vatican specialist on labor matters. Perhaps, said the Vatican spokesman charitably, Pegler talked to some priest or monsignor, who either personally shared his views or was just trying to be polite and asked Pegler for a report on labor...
...weekly drawing of the French National Lottery one day last month, the winning ticket was No. 301,207. To the holder of that stub went 13,000,000 tax-free francs ($37,143). The lucky man was a Roman Catholic priest, Sylvan Grandmougin, 52, Abbé of Attignéville...
...word about the acting. It is excellent, especially that of Canada Lee in the role of the native pastor, and that of Sidney Poitier as a Young colored priest...