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Married. Jim Jordan, 64, radio's Fibber McGee, for 21 years (1935-56) the incorrigible comic blowhard of 79 Wistful Vista; and Mrs. Gretchen Stewart, 52, widow of Dialect Comedian Yogi Yorgenson; both for the second time (Jordan's first wife Marian, who was also Fibber McGee's Molly, died last year after 43 years of marriage); in Honolulu...
Babes in Toyland (Buena Vista), Walt Disney's first live-action musical, is a wonderful piece of entertainment for children under five, but children over five who plan to see it will be well advised to take some Berlitz brushup lessons in baby talk...
...cold and overcast on the Baltic coast. Rusted strands of barbed wire run over the sand dunes and dip into the sea. Across the border in East Germany is a vista of desolated heath, broken only by a squat Communist watchtower. Some 20 yds. beyond the barbed-wire barricade, the East Germans have hacked through the underbrush and cleared a strip of land 15 ft. wide. Later, I found that it rambled the entire length of the frontier. The purpose of the strip is to enable authorities to trace the footsteps of fleeing East Germans to determine their route...
Last June. Msgr. Illich's Center for Intercultural Formation opened at Chula Vista with 68 students-about half laymen and half priests and nuns. Only 32 survived the rigors of the four-month. $750 course and are ready for assignment by their sponsoring agencies. The attrition of five and one-half hours daily of language drill, plus lectures and discussions that may last as late as 2 a.m., was only partly responsible for the high mortality; Illich and his staff deliberately make the students angry, start arguments, challenge cherished beliefs. "I hate Yankees!'' Illich may yell...
...Loves Pedro? Last week. Msgr. Illich greeted his second class at Chula Vista-35 men and women, eleven from Canada, including three married couples. All have some special skill that they plan to use in their minimum of three years' missionary work: nurse, teacher, agricultural expert, credit union or cooperative manager. "We presuppose these skills; we do not provide them." says Illich. "Those of good will alone need not apply." For skilled North Americans, coming from a highly technological society, have a special mission to Latin America, which is beginning to go through the same urbanization that...