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...Ernesto Mayz Vallenilla, rector of Simon Bolivar University, has become a vociferous critic of what he terms the petrolear mentality-a kind of psychological rolling in oil. Despite Pérez's reassurances, many small businessmen fear an "inflation of abundance" that has already driven costs up 15%. No American companies have pulled out yet, but since Pérez's intentions toward them are still unclear, they are wary about further investment. Foreign exporters, however, are quite happy at the prospect of a new luxury market-Venezuela has already become one of the world's largest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Pefro/ecrr Society | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

...likelihood that his weekly prayer meetings will somehow go on. A lifelong Episcopalian, Ford will continue to worship whenever he can in his "home parish," Immanuel Church-on-the-Hill in Alexandria, Va. Though Ford may get a relatively liberal slant on religion from Immanuel's rector, the Rev. William L. Dols Jr., he gets a fundamentalist pitch at home in Michigan. There he has nurtured a close friendship with the Rev. Billy Zeoli, an evangelical minister who is head of Gospel Films Inc. of Muskegon, Mich., and peripatetic chaplain to a number of professional sports teams. Another, probably...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The God Network in Washington | 8/26/1974 | See Source »

ILLICH HAS a fascinating background. Austrian by birth, he studied history, philosophy and theology in Rome, Salzburg and Vienna. He served as an assistant pastor in a Puerto Rican parish in New York City for five years and then as a monsignor and vice-rector of the Catholic University of Puerto Rico for another four years. He was dismissed from the latter post in 1960 after a controversy arose over his role in the island's birth control program. He then helped found the Intercultural Documentation Center in Cuernavace, Mexico, where he wrote Celebration of Awareness, Deschooling Society and Tools...

Author: By Travis P. Dungan, | Title: Hooked on Speed | 5/7/1974 | See Source »

...Dwight Chapin, Nixon's former appointments secretary, is scheduled to be sentenced in the U.S. District Court on his two-count perjury conviction. Jeb Stuart Magruder, former Nixon re-election committee deputy di rector, has asked to be sentenced about this time. He pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the cover-up last August...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The Court Calendar | 4/29/1974 | See Source »

...participation in politics with distaste. In fact the Thai language uses the idiom "to play at politics" rather than "to go into politics." Thus even Sanya Dhamasakti, the popular civilian who has been temporary Prime Minister for the past three months, wants to return quickly to his job as rector of Bangkok's Thammasat University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THAILAND: The First Steps to Reform | 1/7/1974 | See Source »

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