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...plans of their elders, who had promised certain of the participating denominations (notably the Eastern Orthodox churches) that there would be no celebration of common Communion. Dutch Reformed Theologian Johan nes Hoekendijk, 48, exhorted his young listeners to disregard and rise above their confessional loyalties. "For God's sake, be impatient," he urged. "There will be no movement in the ecumenical move ment unless we are ready to step out of our traditions." Although the assembly's president, Anglican Canon Edward Patey, formally refused to sanction joint Communion, more than 1,000 young people commandeered the Reformed Church...
...sake of appearances. The Clan last week behaved with admirable propriety. Frankie wore his hairpiece, snarled at not more than one photographer, and offered to sing a solo at the convention (offer declined). Pee-tah wore conservative grey suits and tried not to be conspicuous (Den Mother Shirley MacLaine, a kook in her own right, was for Adlai, so she did not count). Naturally, there were gala parties. Frankie sang new words to All the Way: May I be emphatic? I'm Italian Democratic- All the way. I know it sounds cutting, But we've had enough...
Ikeda was born in Hiroshima prefecture, is descended from six generations of wealthy sake makers. In early deference to the family business, he developed a prodigious capacity for the native drink (the Tokyo newspaper Mainichi noted candidly last week that "he has been on the wagon now for one month"). He became a hard-working government tax expert. In World War II, he bossed the tax bureau's head office in Tokyo, raising revenues for the Imperial armies. During the U.S. occupation of Japan, he proved to be U.S. Economic Adviser Joseph Dodge's most stubborn and effective...
...been bought by the Ikeda faction. But before he could board the plane, he was approached by a forceful hakoshi, or delegate rustler, from a rival faction, who persuaded him to swap his air ticket for a first-class train ride, "all meals paid for, and plenty of sake." But once aboard the train, the delegate fell in with a smooth-talking hakoshi of the Fujiyama faction, who persuaded him to descend for a night of pleasure in the resort town of Atami, 60 miles short of Tokyo. Before resuming the journey next day. the delegate was presented with...
Amid all the sake-gay festivity, the monks of Mount Sanjogatake were glum. Said 75-year-old Abbot Kaigyoku Okada: "Can a man meditate on the Buddha in the midst of passing geishas? That is why we sought mountain solitude. But now girls are to be allowed on our mountain, presumably with their boy friends. If one of my priests doing a cliff exercise happens to see a young couple, he may lose his balance and be killed." The abbot may have been thinking of a line popular with the mountain priests: "Woman is the root of disaster that even...