Word: reliefs
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Bread & Leprosy. Principal agent for Protestant relief work is Viet Nam Christian Service. Launched in 1965, V.N.C.S. supports 73 foreign workers, ranging from doctors to home economists, will spend more than $500,000 this year to operate some 60 projects, including the supplying of 6,500 loaves of bread every day to supplement a Saigon school-lunch program. Some Protestant groups also support their own private assistance programs. The Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service will spend $268,700 this year to operate, among other endeavors, a 38-bed hospital and a school of nursing. The conservative Worldwide Evangelization Crusade sponsors...
Although undertaken in a spirit of Christian altruism, church-run relief services have not escaped criticism. Some American Catholic critics of the war were shocked to discover that CRS has for two years been helping distribute U.S. surplus food to families of South Viet Nam's 700,000-member local militia, at the request of General William Westmoreland. Defending the arrangement, CRS officials pointed out that the low-paid militiamen are often away on duty and unable to provide sufficiently for their families. Because of the well-established Roman Catholic structure in Viet Nam, CRS is able to ensure...
Died. Varian M. Fry, 59, perpetrator of one of World War IPs neater coups, who in 1940 went to Vichy France, as head of a privately sponsored Emergency Relief Committee ostensibly organized to provide money for blacklisted intellectuals, in reality operated for 24 months as an underground railroad, spiriting some 1,500 people out of the country (among them: Painter Marc Chagall, Physicist Otto Meyerhoff) until authorities at last expelled Fry; of a heart attack; in Easton, Conn...
...Cunard Line's new est flagship down the ways. The vessel, known up to launch time as "Q4" or "Hull No. 763," is slightly smaller than the Queens and, owing to modern materials, vastly lighter (58,000 tons v. Elizabeth's 82,997). And, to the relief of a British government that is underwriting much of its cost, it will also be more economical...
...nothing really gay about his deceiver. As played by Ugo Tojnazzi, he is a victim of his own capacity for compassion; it saddens him that all three of his families cannot be unit-id-not for convenience' sake, but for love. Instead of heaving a sigh of relief when Marisa leaves him to go home, Sergio pursues her-and gets beaten up in rescuing her from her angry peasant family. Though his premiums are soaring, he insists on taking out equal insurance policies for all three women. To make ends meet, he begins moonlighting as a jazz pianist...