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...issue facing the 670 delegates to the biennial convention of the Lutheran Church in America (3,227,000 members) was a proposed new, uniform order of worship drawn up by eight of the nation's top Lutheran liturgists. They favored Holy Communion services at least every Sunday and the use of the chalice rather than prefilled individual Communion glasses. They also recommended that every church should have facilities for private confessions, and that Lutherans should be "increasingly urged to avail themselves of this spiritual habit...
They stored diamonds in milk cans in South Africa during the Depression -who could afford them? But now more than 40 million American women wear diamonds, and last year Americans bought about $400 million worth of the precious stones. Last week, at their biennial convention in Manhattan, members of the World Federation of Diamond Exchanges predicted that U.S. diamond sales would rise at least another 10% this year, and they looked forward to continued scarcity. Says Amsterdam's Louis Asscher, former chairman of the International Diamond Manufacturers Association: "There won't be any queuing up at Tiffany...
Judaism's Response. If Bea's chapter makes a gracious bow to the Jews, what should be the Jewish response? That question came under painful scrutiny last week in Chicago at the Biennial General Assembly meeting of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, the central body of Reform Judaism in the Western Hemisphere. U.A.H.C. President Maurice Eisendrath seemed to offer an ecumenical balm of his own. "Interreligious understanding is not a one-way street," he said. "What about our Jewish attitudes toward Christendom, toward Jesus especially?" Eisendrath called for a reassessment of Christ's role...
...surprisingly, automation proved the central concern of last week's fifth biennial convention of the AFL-CIO. The federation's president George Meany established the meeting's general tone in his opening address. Automation, he said, offers "no element of blessing.... It is rapidly becoming a real curse to society...
Next morning Kennedy appeared before the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s fifth biennial convention-the last big Big Labor get-together before the '64 campaign. After reviewing New Frontier accomplishments, Kennedy launched into an impassioned plea for the tax bill's immediate enactment-something that he had despaired of the day before. With prompt passage of the tax bill, he said, "we will be sailing by next April on the, winds of the longest and strongest'' peacetime expansion in our nation's economic history...