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...kindliest clergyman when used as a title in direct address. "Calling a minister 'reverend,'" says the Right Rev. John Boyd Bentley of the Protestant Episcopal National Council, "is like meeting Churchill and saying, 'Good morning, honorable.' " The plain-talking Presbyterians of New Mexico's Rio Grande Presbytery (33 congregations from Tucumcari to Las Cruces) recently resolved "that all members, friends and enemies of the Presbytery of the Rio Grande are hereby dissuaded and/or discouraged from using 'reverend' henceforth as a form of address to anyone...
...Rio Grande Presbytery Clerk Harry G. Willson, author...
...Washington coverage and joined hands with the Washington Post in the organization of a news service. It has also added four fulltime political editors, two of them stolen from Hearst. Foreign coverage has grown from one staffer roaming Europe, to Times bureaus, either opened or opening, in Mexico City, Rio, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The Times now keeps a man permanently at the U.N., liberates reportorial teams for long, hang-the-cost investigations. These and other improvements have added nearly $1,000,000 to the paper's editorial budget, but Publisher Otis Chandler appears happy...
...Love a Deal." Gilbert had tried his hand at making money down in Rio, but it was all kind of small time after Wall Street. Encountering a fruit peddler on Copacabana Beach, he haggled the price of a few oranges down from 20 cruzeiros apiece to 12. "I just love a deal," said Gilbert. He dabbled in beer stocks, pocketed $5,000 as management consultant to a lathe works, ran his stake high enough to move from dismal digs into a Copacabana suite that he leased from a feminine exile named Simone Delamarr, who had been one of King Farouk...
Seven Days a Week. Most of these adherents are poor, few of them well educated. Their churches are simple-a storefront congregation in New York's Spanish Harlem, a barren cinderblock rectangle on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. The minister is likely to be a factory worker himself, secure in the Pentecostal belief that "a man of God with a Bible in his hand has had training enough." Whether he calls his church Pentecostal or Holiness or Church of God, he emphasizes an event usually glossed over by mainstream Protestants: the Pentecost, 50 days after the Resurrection, when...