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Another TIME specialty is the spotting of trends which to each locality or group may seem peculiarly its own but are actually part of a national phenomenon. Correspondents across the country report this week on the increasing popularity, not only among Mormons and Seventh-day Adventists, but among Catholics. Episcopalians. Presbyterians and Methodists, of the ancient practice of tithing (giving 10% of income to churches...
Bombs in the Garden. One group in particular difficulty was the team of Seventh-day Adventist missionaries and their families. 29 people in all, trapped in their mission building. They were at a dangerous spot: halfway between U.N. headquarters and an important Katanga army building a few hundred yards away. For hours the missionaries ducked, as blast after blast struck their walls and plowed up the garden outside. Then they realized that badly aimed bazooka shells from the U.N. compound itself were doing the damage; during a lull in the firing, they hastily evacuated the buildings...
...Seventh-day Adventist Welfare Service...
...echo of charge and countercharge. Aroused pro-and anti-Paiewonsky factions fired hundreds of messages to Washington, about 9 to 1 in Paiewonsky's favor. Said Novelist Herman (The Caine Mutiny) Wouk, who lives on St. Thomas: "Paiewonsky is the best man." In Charlotte Amalie, the Seventh-day Adventist Church said prayers for Paiewonsky...
Like frustrated Seventh-Day Adventists, conservatives have reacted to their perennial setbacks by assurring each other that "salvation-is-just-around-the-corner" -- but found only repeated clobbering around that bend. It is hard (even for them) to avoid feeling that History is with the other team: one begins to discount their wishful optimism. A triumph such as the YAF rally takes one aback: young people are supposed to be liberal, and New York is hardly a reactionary stronghold to begin with. One wonders if there might really be, as the YAF leaders claim, a great upsurge in rightist sentiment...