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Dwight Eisenhower and his wife dropped into the chapel at Denver's Lowry Air Force Base last week and listened to a forcefully delivered sermon on that theme. The chaplain retold the rugged Old Testament story of how the Israelites, trusting in the sacred ark of the covenant as a magic talisman, had fought slackly against the Philistines, and of how the Philistines smote 30,000 Israelites by following the sturdy advice of I Samuel 4:9. The chaplain's point: too many rely for help and salvation on religious symbols and make too little personal effort toward...
...Searcy, Ark...
After triumphantly brushing past a maid who had orders to keep her out, Barbara ("Bobo") Rockefeller, estranged wife of Winthrop Rockefeller, consolidated her beachhead in his 15-room Park Avenue apartment by winning permission to come & go as she pleased. Winthrop was in Little Rock. Ark., ostensibly to go into business but more likely to qualify himself for a divorce after three months' residence. Scoffed Bobo: "He's not the barefoot-boy type. He has not suddenly fallen in love with the heartland of America." For a self-proclaimed old-fashioned girl, twice-married Bobo (her first...
...Little Rock, Ark., Evangelist Bob Jones Sr. lamented that while "there is a great spiritual hunger because everybody is scared to death . . . there is no revival, no rebirth of religion, such as there was in the days just before and after World War I. There are many conversions today, but the impact is not as strong as it used to be." Title of Evangelist Jones's sermon: "Shoving Jesus Christ Around...
SALES of non-corrosive plastic pipe have boomed so fast (3,000% since 1948) that Republic Steel last week bought pipemaker Owings-Sharpe, Inc. of Magnolia, Ark. Already widely used by mining, chemical and oil companies to carry corrosive fluids, plastic pipe is generally easier to install and cheaper to maintain than corresponding metal pipe. Sales, which reached $15 million last year, are expected to hit $250 million...