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Blonde Patricia McCormick, 23, who left Texas Western College two years ago determined to master the rugged art of bullfighting, survived her first "baptism of blood." The pert torera, who made her professional debut in Juárez last year and has faced some 20 bulls in small rings, was practicing passes with a small but sharp-horned cow on a ranch near Aguascalientes. Mexico. In the middle of a pass, Pat snapped her cape too quickly. The cow charged and gored her in the right thigh. In the hospital, where doctors treated a ten-inch gash, Pat said...
...that Saturday, the Old Testament Sabbath, rather than Sunday, is the proper day of rest and worship, and (as Baptists also hold) that baptism must be by immersion...
...course of his preparation for the story, TIME Writer Alvin Josephy received a fitting baptism into the problems of the Missouri Valley during a 2½-week tour of the region last April. During his flight from St. Louis to Omaha on the first leg of his trip, his plane was ordered to land at Des Moines, with the explanation that the Omaha airport, threatened by the rising Missouri River, was shut down. Josephy and two other passengers hired a cab to take them 160 miles across Iowa to Omaha. Even the cab driver needed extra persuasion to cross...
...ways and yet so different that efforts at a closer association would only entail unhappiness for us both." Although both groups are congregational, i.e., each church runs its own affairs, church leaders found some strong doctrinal differences in the way of unity. Example: the Disciples have historically believed that baptism is necessary for salvation, the Baptists have not. Said Layman Jack Sutton, speaking at a Disciples' banquet: "If we could heave out the pastors, the Disciples and the Baptists would have no trouble in getting together...
Lack of central direction has not kept the Churches of Christ from growing impressively; membership, heaviest in the South and Southwest, has doubled in 25 years. Their basic doctrine is a literalistic belief in the New Testament. Central tenets are baptism by immersion and communion every Sunday. Says an Abilene colleague of Nichols: "Our growth is phenomenal because our plea is simple...