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...Franco is also deeply indebted to the Carlists for their sturdy support in his war against the Spanish republic. Moreover, Prince Carlos Hugo's marriage to Princess Irene establishes a link, however tenuous, with a royal family that not only has a throne but is also the wealthiest in Europe...
...faces every faith -but none more so than the Methodist Church, which last week opened its quadrennial General Conference in Pittsburgh's Civic Arena. With 10,234,986 members, Methodism is the second largest Protestant communion in the U.S.*After the Roman Catholic Church, it is also the wealthiest and the one that, because of its history and geographical distribution, has the best claim to be the only truly national Protestant denomination. This year many of the 858 Methodist delegates arrived at their conference with the deep conviction that their church had reached a turning point in history...
...left North Carolina for Southern Rhodesia as a leaf buyer for British-American Tobacco, stayed on to establish one of the world's largest tobacco auctions. Ex-Navyman Phillip Gordon, 44, arrived in Southern Rhodesia with a Jeep and $500 in 1949, is now one of the wealthiest men in British Central Africa; he has built two housing developments, owns a furniture factory, a construction business and operates a gold mine. Lawrence A. Hautz, 54, sold his successful Milwaukee insurance agency ten years ago to take his arthritic wife to the milder climate of Salisbury, also in Southern Rhodesia...
...Kykko monastery, who was attracted by young Michael's intelligence when the boy became a novice at the age of 13; he later took the name Makarios, which means "blessed." By entering Kykko, which was founded eight centuries ago high in the Troodos Mountains, and is today the wealthiest monastery in Cyprus with assets estimated at $56 million, Makarios was joining the "black," or celibate, clergy as opposed to the "white" Greek Orthodox priests who may marry, but who seldom rise far in the hierarchy and cannot become bishops...
...Nikita Khrushchev peered across the Great Kremlin Hall and spied the millennium. "In the immediate future," he declared to the Supreme Soviet, "we shall reach the production and consumption level of the United States, the wealthiest country of the capitalist world. Then we shall enter the open sea in which no comparisons with capitalism will anchor...