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When Treasury Minister Emilio Colombo became Premier last August after one of Italy's chronic Cabinet imbroglios, a cynical Roman politician ventured a prediction: "Colombo can't last through autumn. This may be precisely why he will." What he meant was that after five governments in 27 months, warring factions in the four-party governing coalition might let things ride for a while. If Colombo, too, were to topple, the result might be expensive and uncertain national elections...
...series of fourth-through sixth-grade textbooks published by Dayton's George A. Pflaum. The series was originated by Walter J. Limbacher, a Denver clinical psychologist, who started the program as a consultant to the U.S. Army and pilot-tested his ideas in Denver's Roman Catholic parochial schools...
Fruitful Fields. Some of the new mission activity, especially among Protestant evangelicals and fundamentalists in Latin America, has been the result, ironically enough, of the Second Vatican Council. The council's decree on religious liberty was quickly felt in Roman Catholic countries, where hitherto severe restrictions on Protestant evangelizing all but disappeared. At the end of World War II, there were only 1,900,000 Protestants in Latin America; today there are ten times that many...
Radical Posture. Mostly it is a shortage of native clergy and technical help that persuades most Third World leaders to accept missionaries from Europe and North America, though some leaders attach special provisos to their invitations. Under the bootstrap socialism of Tanzania, President Julius Nyerere, a Roman Catholic, has required the missionaries to pitch in to rebuild the society. On a quiet visit to the U.S. recently, Nyerere slipped up to Maryknoll headquarters near New York City to lecture nuns on the role of missions in developing countries. One of Nyerere's suggestions, already adopted by missionaries in some...
...running struggle to illuminate "impressions" of human existence from artist to audience. Sometimes, these impressions merely state the quiet yet dramatic fact of human existence, like the paintings on the walls of Spain's Altamira caves, or else they can boldly declare individual existence with the sincerity of a Roman bust...