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...Nathan H. Knorr, president of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society, announced that Jehovah's Witnesses now have 700,000 members in 162 countries. "Our numbers have tripled in Poland in the last seven years," he said, "although we are banned and persecuted in all Iron Curtain countries." Witness growth he attributed to the sense of being faced by a "deadline"-the Battle of Armageddon, which Witnesses calculate will take place some time before...
...Well. In Baytown, Texas, Attorney Sam R. Fisher, trying to persuade the city council to put off annexing part of a land tract, argued: "I don't know what you could possibly want with all that land. It hasn't anything on it except a few old dirty oil wells...
This curious and amusing book is billed as a novel, but might just as accurately be called a memoir, a short-story collection or a religious tract. The 37-year-old author is the daughter of Britain's pinko Pundit Konni Zilliacus, Laborite Member of Parliament. During her untrammeled childhood, when her father was with the League of Nations Secretariat in Geneva, Stella Zilliacus obviously kept her eyes open and the tape recorder of her memory turned on. Real names drop like ripe plums-Nehru, H. G. Wells, Anthony Eden, Bernard Shaw-and the fictional ones seem...
...first sight, Miller's latest book seems less a tract for Free Spirits than a robust piece of promotional prose for some chamber of cultural commerce. Big Sur is an artists' colony near Monterey, and Henry Miller is its leading prophet and pressagent. Like all Miller's books, this one contains great jambalayas of jiggery-pokery about everything under the midnight sun, from atomic stockpiling (anti) to Zulus (pro). But the early passages about Miller at Big Sur-wuffling away at the wild waves, sitting in hot sulphur baths, dragging his groceries a mile and a half...
...home. When Iron Liege made his move, Eddie took to the whip, and Bold Ruler went back to work. He was still pulling away when he won by two lengths. Behind him, outclassed Iron Liege had all he could do to keep a neck in front of outsider Inside Tract. Said modest Eddie: "It was better today. He ran the way he wanted...