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...Process was founded only eight years ago in London by a former Anglican named Robert de Grimston, now in his mid-30s, who is known as "the Teacher" to Processeans. De Grimston has no permanent base, but conducts a will-o'-the-wisp peripatetic ministry, communicating with his followers in letters they call "brethren information." Occasionally he drops in at a Process chapter to teach the "brethren" in person...
...million annually, and Cairo is hungry for more. Libyans have been heard to murmur, moreover, that the Egyptian technicians sent to Tripoli last year are "just foreignersas bad as the Italians, the British or the Americans." In view of such feelings, the will-o'-the-wisp of Arab unity may prove as elusive as ever...
...turned out that Dame Irony had dealt me a wicked coup d'epee. Gregory had been at the airport all along, searching for me! Now it is too late for us. I know that love is an evanescence, a cruel will-o'-the-wisp that will e'er elude...
...nation's 725,000 postal workers, who stand to get annual pay hikes ranging from $371 to $507 a year. Even that did not please everyone. Gustave Johnson, leader of the letter carriers' Manhattan Branch 36, which began last month's strike, called the settlement a "wisp of smoke" and threatened another one if Washington did not increase the ante. The Administration may have trouble enough just paying for the current raise, which will cost $2.5 billion a year. Congress has made it clear that it will not pick up the President's suggestion that first...
RALPH DE JESUS is twelve years old, a 60-lb. wisp of a boy barely four feet tall, with gentle eyes and pale arms so thin that it is almost impossible to believe that they could take a needle. But Ralphie is a junkie. He has not only used heroin, but he has also taken part in muggings and sold drugs to his friends in order to support his habit. Last week Ralphie was in Manhattan's Odyssey House, in a group therapy session with a psychiatrist and a dozen ex-addicts aged 14 to 18. Ralphie wanted...