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...know what to expect from the Mamas and the Papas -- all you've seen of them is their picture in a bathtub on the cover of their album and all you've heard are stories about LSD arrests. There are four of them and they flew in from the Virgin Islands last spring with two enormous hits and a totally original sound. You walk back stage at the Commonwealth Armory expecting to find a completely flipped-out bunch, four curiosities who happen to sing nice songs...
...theology or allows its traditional wide range of freedom in seeking the truth." To Bishop Henry I. Louttit of south Florida, the man pressing for the trial, the issue is whether the church can tolerate within its ranks a bishop who has denied such fundamental dogmas as the Virgin Birth. "We want him to resign the episcopate," Louttit says. "The common word is unfrocked. I want him to admit that he does not accept the faith...
...North Viet Nam and the wife of a civil servant, Mme. Xa grew up "studying like a man" in a house filled with rosewood and mother-of-pearl paneling and glass windows "as blue as the sky." Strictly chaperoned, she learned social work, painted landscapes, wrote poems to the Virgin Mary-and, at age 14, snatched away the billy club of a policeman beating a street peddler. Her family supported the Viet Minh war for independence, then was turned out of house and home by the victorious Communists...
...Picture Producers Association refused to grant its seal of approval to Otto Preminger's The Moon Is Blue, because it dealt frivolously with seduction. Preminger thumbed his nose and distributed the picture anyway, benefiting from reams of publicity about the dialogue, which actually dared to use the word virgin...
Unlike Pike, Myers shuns theological controversy, calls himself simply a "catholic churchman." When asked what he thinks of such thorny matters as Pike's denial of the Virgin Birth, the physical Resurrection of Christ and the Trinity, and his restless questioning of the nature of God, Myers is diplomatic. "The theological situation throughout the church today is extremely confused," says he, "and Bishop Pike is simply a part of that...