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...radical that it was classified as experimental (and therefore ineligible for the winner-take-all $3,000 prize), Thunderbird had been clocked at 65 m.p.h. in practice runs. That was enough to make it the prerace favorite, but there was no shortage of high-velocity competition. Miami Boatbuilder Dick Bertram was at the helm of his diesel-powered Brave Moppie, the 1965 world champion. Following in the example of his father, a champion hydroplane racer, Gar Wood Jr. was driving Orca, a needle-nosed, 47-ft. monster that packed 1,200 horses under its deck. British hopes were pinned...
...takes an hour and a half to write every three minutes of a good sermon," says the Rev. Bertram Apman, pastor of the small Holy Cross Lutheran Church in the Seattle suburb of Newport. Overworked at his job of counseling, fundraising, youth work and admin stration, he has little time left to pr pare his preaching, which is why "some of my sermons have been so crummy." Apman feels that most small-town ministers share his problem, and that the solution is to merge weak little churches into a few big ones, regardless of the cost in denominationalism...
Died. Thomas Bertram Costain, 80, prolific author of bestselling historical novels (The Silver Chalice) and some straight popular histories, who made his career as an editor of Canada's Maclean's magazine and the Saturday Evening Post and as a story scout for 20th Century-Fox until at 55 he decided, "If I was ever going to write, I'd better start right away," produced 20 readable yet scholarly works that have sold some 15 million copies since 1942 and resulted in several movie epics; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...forced a publisher to back down. After weeks of trying to install a computer that would cut costs and increase the speed of typesetting, the New York Post's Mrs. Dorothy Schiff said that her paper could not meet the "enormous tribute" demanded by the local I.T.U. boss, Bertram Powers. The union insisted on a 50% share in wage savings, but Dolly Schiff balked at any payout so long as the Post is financially rocky-and she chucked the computer...
...York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff was tearfully threatening to shut down her paper unless she could save money by using a computerized typesetter. Bertram Powers, local boss of the International Typographical Union, was adamantly demanding 50% of any wage savings. Between the two, they were generating rumors that Manhattan might soon lose another daily. Then, after a week's trial run with the computer at the Post, Bert Powers went off on vacation. The paper went back to its old-fashioned Linotype machines, and Mrs. Schiff, apparently accepting at least a temporary defeat, announced the negotiations had been adjourned...