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...weak to walk and have to be dragged along by friends. Out in the lush countryside, in some of the mud-walled villages, the crisis is worse. When one of the Catholic priests visits he is immediately surrounded by haggard faces begging for medicine, food, anything. At the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital in Okpala, a sign at the gate reads "No Vacancy." At Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Umuahia, the largest in the region, doctors one day recently counted 1,800 patients suffering from kwashiorkor: during the whole of 1963, the same hospital treated 18 such cases. At the military hospital...
Pacific students have held seminars on parapsychology and Viet Nam, traveled into the Mojave to study desert ecology. A comparative religion course came alive through visits to Catholic Masses, Seventh-Day Adventist services, even a Satanic Church in San Francisco. They can study anything they choose on their own, and no one cares whether they attend class. "I just go down there and holler at nine in the morning," says Math Teacher Ray Ditman, "and if nobody shows up, I go back home...
...workers, ranging from doctors to home economists, will spend more than $500,000 this year to operate some 60 projects, including the supplying of 6,500 loaves of bread every day to supplement a Saigon school-lunch program. Some Protestant groups also support their own private assistance programs. The Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service will spend $268,700 this year to operate, among other endeavors, a 38-bed hospital and a school of nursing. The conservative Worldwide Evangelization Crusade sponsors the Happy Haven Leprosarium in Danang...
...scene of wild incongruity. On a tennis court near the Bimini Hotel one day last week, Baptist Preacher Adam Clayton Powell led an assemblage of curious cronies, touring Seventh-day Adventists and bemused newsmen in what he solemnly described as an interdenominational service. He took his text from Jeremiah 8:4: "When men fall, do they not rise again...
...tens of thousands of Seventh-Day Adventists in Southern California suffer from most of the same diseases as their non-Adventist neighbors, including cancer. Yet on the average, the Adventist men live longer. Most conspicuously, they have only one-fourth as much lung disease as other Californians...