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...president of Bogotá's University of the Andes. Two years ago he resigned the university job to lead the opposition to Dictator Rojas. Before his own acceptance last week, Lleras had ruefully spelled out the qualifications for a Colombian president. He must be, said Lleras, "a magician, prophet, redeemer, savior and pacifier who can transform a ruined republic into a prosperous one, can make the prices of the things we export rise and the value of the things we consume drop." As the May 4 election date drew near, Colombians seemed convinced that Lleras...
...stories comprise what is worth reading in the rest of The Editor. One, in West Indian dialect and called The Prophet, is by Keith Lowe. The story doesn't really overcome the contrived manner of the dialect, which in any tongue has of course been successful only seldom. But it is unusual in its subject, the coming and going, if that's the right word, of a prophet to the Islands. Elaine Ford's The Foil lacks any development of a third character, Berthe, in a love story which is rather nicely handled in her clean style...
...have a real one"). But the U.S.'s currently favorite tele-comedian, boasting no single towering talent, succeeds as a funnyman mostly because his humor seems to well up from a sizable heart. Or, as Danny Thomas puts it, citing his favorite philosopher, Lebanese Mystic Kahlil (The Prophet) Gibran: "Comedy and tragedy aren't very far apart. Like Gibran says, 'Your joy is your sorrow unmasked...
...Young Lions (20th Century-Fox). "And the sword shall devour thy young lions," wrote the prophet Nahum. His words, affixed in epigraph to Irwin Shaw's bestseller of 1948, seemed no more than intellectual makeweight in what proved to be a light package. But the film version of the novel, as conceived and produced by the late Al Lichtman (TIME, March 3), strikes deeper into human substance and rises more often to the epic height of its adage and its argument. Epic is plainly what Moviemaker Lichtman hoped to achieve-a sort of Europead elaborated out of the decisive...
With members' contributions, Prophet Zarur bought whole floors in a Rio office building, hired 120 clerks to handle mail, set up a soup kitchen and a spiritual counseling department, organized a series of "caravans" to tour jails with samba bands and radio singers. One of his most popular radio gimmicks: the "Prayer Chain," a long prayer by Zarur with a pause in the middle for the listener to insert his own petition to God. Says Zarur's secretary: "It cures almost anything...