Word: 54th
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Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government and head of the Civil Affairs Training School, will lecture on "The Changing Pattern of Government" in one of 17 individual meetings held today and tomorrow at the 54th annual meeting of the Harvard Teachers' Association in Cambridge. This meeting marks the fourth gathering since the beginning...
...Work in shipyards continued at breakneck speed, with emphasis on tankers, landing craft and big, fast transports. At Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. an 18,000-ton, all-welded attack transport slid into the Singing River, the 54th ship to be christened at Pascagoula, Miss, in 56 months...
...Trusting Bulldozer. During the Sicily campaign men of the 54th Battalion saved the lives of more than 175 soldiers trapped on a bombed and burning LST by erecting a bridge of pontoons to another ship. On another day they rescued a fleet of landing craft which was being pounded to pieces in the surf. Bulldozer operators steered their caterpillar machines into the waves and pushed the boats out into deeper, quieter water...
...54th day a ray-detecting electrometer struck pay dirt. The city engineer built a tricky special scraper, probed, scratched, and out of a heap of sewer muck hauled the three precious tubes...
Last week Episcopalians were slightly torn by unity. Before the Episcopal Church's 54th Triennial General Convention, meeting in Cleveland's Euclid Avenue Baptist Church (no Episcopal church was large enough to hold the 750 Bishops, priests and laymen), were two reports from the Joint Commission on Approaches to Unity. For six years this Commission has pondered with unflagging leisureliness the question of uniting Episcopalians with the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. The majority report (twelve signers) favored unity; the minority report (three signers) opposed...