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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quinn had plenty of pushing room. Before long he was addressing meetings, joining the Community Chest (he later became chairman), becoming active in Roman Catholic Church groups. His trademark was his singing voice, and rare was the gathering that Quinn did not entertain with a sweet version of Ke Kali Nei Au, the old Hawaiian wedding song. "Boy," says one friend, "if there was a microphone in the room, you could bet that Bill Quinn would wind up in front...
...order; they raised havoc with farm production. When Communist Chief Minister E.M.S. Namboodiripad tried to impose the Communist line upon Kerala's private schools, he united against himself two usually antagonistic groups, the wealthy, conservative Hindu sect called the Nairs and the state's large Roman Catholic population. Unrest that at first manifested itself in small student demonstrations soon became a statewide tide of revulsion...
...England, the other for Ireland." In a sizzling heat wave, the photographers were out on the bathing-suit beat, and while the average British daily carried enough cheesecake for a Berlin banquet, editions exported to Ireland featured proper young women in street clothes. There was no alternative: Roman Catholic Ireland's law and custom have long forced Irish newspapers to adopt one of the most rigorous self-censorships of any free press in the world...
...debate on whether a Roman Catholic should be President is rolling right along-as is Senator John F. Kennedy's campaign for the Democratic nomination. In the Methodist Church of Edgartown, Mass, last week, Bishop John Wesley Lord explained why the prospect of a Catholic President worries him. "While we hold to the principle of respect for every individual, whatever his race or religion, because of the unique claims that the Roman Catholic Church makes for itself, we have the right and duty to ask some questions of a presidential aspirant." He proceeded to ask five...
...forbidding jungles, the pilot banked his plane, swooped down toward a clearing and made a smooth touchdown on another makeshift airfield. There to greet him were the local priest, a handful of native sisters, and hordes of near-naked natives. The pilot: lean, sandy-haired Bishop Leo Arkfeld, 47, Roman Catholic Vicar Apostolic of the Wewak Vicariate, a 20,100-sq.-mi. area (more than twice the size of New Jersey) in Australia's hot, humid New Guinea territory...