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...combination of 20 U.S. bishops has raised as much as Cushing has in nickels and dimes and half-dollars for the mission," says one bishop. Most of Cushing's donations come from what he calls "the mighty mites" of average Catholics, although he has a few tame millionaires whom he taps regularly, such as the Jewish couple who own Rockingham Park race track in New Hampshire. Last year he performed a spectacular feat that had nothing to do with the church: raising $1,000,000 in a few days, at the request of Bobby Kennedy, to ransom the Cuban...
...FLUME RIDE. "There are thrills by the hundred on this you can bet, but we can't be responsible when ya come back wet," warns a sign at the turnstile. After some tame swerves and curves through serpentine, sky-blue waters and up a steep lift-one big splash and some spray in the face...
...life, and finally becomes a dread Kapo-"head" or trusty-who assumes guard duties, wielding a rubber truncheon against fellow inmates. This unsympathetic behavior nearly amounts to a forceful statement about the corruption of human values under stress, except that the beast in Actress Strasberg is patently far too tame. Cast as a bossy, driving turn-cat, she somehow remains pensive and soulful-eyed, falls predictably in love with a handsome P.W., and dies heroically just as Soviet guns begin to boom beyond the surrounding hills...
Levers & Virgins. Out of the ancient Egyptian attempts to tame the Nile floods developed the tools of civilization: a 365-day calendar to predict the coming of the flood; a crude astronomy to further refine forecasts; systems of accounting, and, ultimately, written language to handle the stores of grain needed to tide the society over the lean months between the floods; building implements like the wedge, the lever, the screw, the pulley, the inclined plane...
...dictatorship is changing too. As a practical matter, not out of any sudden conversion to democracy, Stroessner now tolerates an opposition, relatively tame though it may be. In the 1963 presidential elections, a nominal opposition got on the ballot for the first time, and by law wound up with an automatic 20 of the 60 seats in Congress. (In Mexico's one-party "guided democracy," the ruling P.R.I, also guarantees some seats to its opposition-but up to 11%, not 33%.) "We allow freedom for all non-Communist political parties," says Edgar Ynsfran, 43, Stroessner's ambitious...