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...these gains did not allay many private fears about the merger's future. One influential participant in the consultation thinks it possible that the Episcopalians and Methodists will bow out when a unity plan is formally proposed. Dr. Kyle Haselden, editor of The Christian Century, agrees that "a more likely venture is a union of the Disciples of Christ, United Church of Christ and the Presbyterians...
...study on how to get married," says Helen Brown, who married at a ripe 37, "but how to stay single in superlative style. How much safer to marry with the play out of his system and yours. It takes guts." Such words are calculated to allay the anxieties of the 14 million single women in the U.S., most of whom are perpetually nagged to get married...
...time, Sternberg's films were criticized for being static, plotless, "two-dimensional fabrications." Today film buffs recognize his early Salvation Hunters and The Blue Angel as masterly classics, but recognition has come too late and.too grudgingly to allay Sternberg's bitterness, which infects his vision and distorts what is otherwise a fascinating narrative...
Passenger Fears. The industry has a way to go. It now schedules passenger flights between downtown and airport, airport and airport, and on short suburban runs, but the lines are hampered by erratic schedules, the high cost of operation and passenger fears about safety that are hard to allay. (In the past decade, helicopter lines have carried 3,130,000 passengers with only two fatal crashes.) Every time a helicopter passenger pays $8 for a ride, taxpayers must chip in another $8 to enable him to make the trip. Still, as helicopter technology has advanced, the taxi lines have managed...
...President Johnson hastened plans to reduce the amount of gold that the U.S. must legally hold to back its dollars, thus making more gold available for international dealings. The Treasury later confirmed that Congress will be asked to approve the change, issued an unusual public statement that tried to allay fears about the dollar...