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...Jacobs is first of all in favor of marriage; secondly, she proposes to cut the rate of illegitimate births by contraception. The ideals of Planned Parenthood, U.S.-style ("Every child a wanted child"), baffle many a Jamaican sire, but the Beth Jacobs Clinic does its best to spread the word. Last week Mrs. Jacobs was on her way to the International Planned Parenthood Federation's sixth international conference in New Delhi to report on the results...
Considerably sprucer than when he waddled through his filmed portrait of the artist (Joyce Cary's madcap Gulley Jimson) as an old sot, Cinemactor Sir Alec Guinness beamed sedately at a kind word from Princess Margaret at a royal film performance of The Horse's Mouth. Down the line, spinach-maned Chanteuse Juliette Greco and Cinemactress Peggy (Cash on Delivery) Cummins awaited the royal pleasure...
...this? Working with local community services, churches, hospitals, welfare agencies, schools, but above all through personal example. The kind of "lay witness" called for is sometimes possible only with close friends, "but the door of personal testimony is never fully closed, and the word spoken by the sincere man . . . carries more weight than he realizes. The 'home with the open door' is everywhere one of the most immediate human influences. As an oil executive, engineer or businessman, [the Christian] should consider his main objective not in terms of dividends for shareholders, or power for America, or prestige...
Died. Daniel Francois Malan, 84, one-time (1948-54) Prime Minister of South Africa. Boer supremacist who sent the Afrikaans word apartheid ricocheting around the world; following a stroke; in Stellenbosch, Union of South Africa. Among Malan's ambitions were the preservation of Africa for the Afrikaners and the creation of a "New Jerusalem"; i.e., a Boer republic, where "the sacred Boer race" would not suffer "pollution" by the black man. Among his achievements was a clause added to the national constitution: "The People of the Union acknowledge the sovereignty and guidance of Almighty...
...Last Word (CBS, 3-3:30 p.m.). William Saroyan, who wallows in language like a dieter in a delicatessen, is this week's guest etymologist...