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...generation of Catholic thinkers, particularly in Europe, has been finding new approaches to theology and, in the case of the late Paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and others, new meanings in science. It is the genius of Pope John XXIII that he sensed that the time was ripe for internal renewal in the church, and opened...
Through the streets of Elisabethville swirled 100 howling Africans and Europeans carrying banners blazoned, "No G.I.s in Katanga!" At the U.S. consulate they trampled on an American flag and shattered windows with rocks and ripe mangoes. It was Secessionist Moise Tshombe's way of replying to the U.S. decision last week to send a military mission to the Congo to see what equipment the United Nations force will need to bring his secessionist Katanga province to heel...
...account, Aluminum Pioneer Davis was the fifth richest man in the U.S. A penniless New England preacher's son, he spent 60 years building the Aluminum Co. of America into one of the world's industrial giants. At 80, he retired to Florida, seemingly ripe for a pipe, cabana and canasta. Instead, he began a second career of buying Florida real estate. Soon he owned an airline, a shipping company, an ice cream plant, one-eighth of Dade County (Miami), 20,000 acres in the Bahamas, 200,000 acres on Cuba's Isle of Pines...
...chartered by an antiquated state constitution. Over the years, the bickering and battling between the two sides put Michigan $85.6 million into debt. Auto companies began building new assembly plants in other states; the population explosion and the absence of industrial diversification added further economic headaches. Michigan was ripe for change...
Sunk in disorder and poverty, many of the newly independent nations of black Africa not long ago seemed ripe ground for Communism. None seemed riper than Guinea, where President Sékou Touré preached a dogmatic Marxist philosophy and a virulent hatred of the West. But in Africa, a local saying holds, "There is no past or future, only the present," and Guinea is a perfect case in point. After years of cozying up to Moscow, Touré has turned against the Reds, and their high hopes of gaining an African foothold in Guinea have all but evaporated...