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Furor over Forty Few Vatican announcements in recent years-apart from Pope Paul's birth control encyclical-have caused such a worldwide stir as the abrupt downgrading of more than 200 saints in 1969. Among the popular figures dropped from the universal liturgical calendar were St. Christopher, St. Nicholas (the original Santa Claus) and England's patron St. George. Now English Roman Catholics are about to recapture some of their lost ground: Pope Paul VI is planning to canonize 40 Roman Catholic martyrs who were condemned to agonizing deaths on the orders of Anglican rulers in the 16th...
...Stir, ever so gently, the rustle...
...ONETIME poor boy from Brooklyn, 5-ft. 5-in. Bernard Cornfeld causes quite a stir in almost everything he does. Despite the persistent antagonism of conservative European moneymen, some foreign governments and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, he has built his Investors Overseas Services into one of the 20th century's great financial empires. Geneva-based I.O.S. has prospered primarily by selling mutual funds outside the U.S., and Cornfeld has proved himself to be a master salesman. Today he manages some $2.2 billion of other people's money, and his personal fortune amounts to about $140 million...
...organization of army ants. He learned that the Fuegians ate their women in a hard winter (instead of their dogs, which could catch otter). Like a great artist, he was half child, half sage. Nothing, from tiny bugs to the giant fossilized Megatherium, was too small or great to stir his delight. He saw not only the kinship of beasts with man but the kinship of man with the beasts...
...complete, and Gallo personally brought it from Champaign, Ill., to New York-it sat beside him in a first-class Ozark Air Lines seat. At first the package was too bulky to get the seat belt around, so Gallo was obliged to unwrap it. That caused quite a stir on the plane. "The hostesses came on the intercom," says Gallo, "and announced that they were pleased to have Myra Breckinridge on the flight with them today...