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...from the Pentecostals that the central Christian message must be proclaimed in all its clarity and simplicity." Admits William Elliott, chairman of the Presbyterian Board of World Missions: "We do not feel that they excel us in a theological point of view. But they often shame us in their zeal to proclaim our Lord as they understand...
...Dilworth had troubles beyond mere political enmities. His reform movement had outlasted its zeal, and scandals began to pile up. He dismissed them at first as "penny ante" stuff. Then he took off on a world tour. Then he came back, post haste, as the scandals grew. One contractor said he had been asked to pay $2,500 to get a city council zoning change. Another bragged that he had paid out $75,000 in payola to city officials to get contracts for the Frankford Elevated. Coin laundry operators said they paid $4,000 to avoid new laundry regulations. Dilworth...
...race driving school and plunked down $2.80 for a crack at a Formula 3 Cooper. Four laps at 80 m.p.h., and Hill, as he tells it, was saying to himself: "I must look into this." He worked as a mechanic for no pay. living "on the dole" in his zeal to drive. He tried the Lotus factory, again as a mechanic, and in 1957 got a chance as a second-string factory driver...
...help put the Congo together again. When the United Nations gave him ten days to accept its latest unification plan or face economic sanctions, Katanga's secessionist President waited until the last minute, then announced fulsomely that he viewed the scheme "with enthusiasm." But mercurial Moise's zeal lasted only a few days. Last week he summoned newsmen to Elisabethville's Prince Leopold Hospital, led them into the mortuary and pointed a well-manicured finger at the bodies of two Katangese gendarmes. He claimed that they had been slain by 500 U.N. troops who attacked a Katanga...
...their U.S. counterparts. But important differences will always remain-if for no other reason than that so much of European business is nationalized. Contrary to what most Americans might expect, some of Europe's ablest managers are civil servants who drive to expand their industrial empires with a zeal worthy of any capitalist. Says Civil Servant Pierre Dreyfus, who has built France's state-owned Renault company into one of the world's most efficient auto producers: "We have no reason to be nationalized unless we serve France-but on one condition: we must not lose money...