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...proposed union of four major American Protestant churches is a cart with four wheels-and one of the wheels is slow to turn. The Presbyterian and Episcopal churches and the United Church of Christ continue generally to favor the dramatic project that Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake put forth in 1960. But the largest denomination involved, the 10 million-member Methodist Church, has deep doubts. Washington's John Wesley Lord, though he is one of the few Methodist bishops who speak out strongly in favor of merger, says: "Methodists have the least enthusiasm, and with good reason...
...would take to reach a painter in that era: ";A few days after the arrival of Mr. Monroe in Boston, he went out early one morning in his carriage to sit for his portrait to Mr. Stuart. Not knowing his dwelling, he stopped a country man seated on his cart, and enquired for Mr. Stuart's house. The country man looked steadfastly at him. 'It is the President, I vow,' said he to himself, and instinctively taking off his hat. he gave three loud and hearty cheers, and drove off, leaving the President unanswered and astonished...
...Louis plant of McDonnell Aircraft Corp., Board Chairman James McDonnell bounced over to the microphone and announced: "This is Mac calling on the team! We have the President of the U.S. with us!" Kennedy hopped aboard an electric cart with McDonnell and chugged through the Mercury capsule assembly lines...
...window, I saw smoke, then flames, which changed from red to orange to yellow to blue. You hear loud crackling and you begin to wonder if the ship's outer covering isn't about to slough off. As the deceleration forces decreased, it became like riding a cart on a bad road." When he landed, Nikolayev said, "my first inclination was to kiss the earth of our motherland...
...Grocery Cart. The Gold Cup's eventual winner was no surprise to the fans. In three furious heats, Hometown Driver Bill Muncey, 33, pushed his orange and white Miss Century 21-owned by Seattle's Willard Rhodes, head of the Thriftway grocery chain-to an average speed of 100 m.p.h. for the 90 miles, deftly sliding around the hazardous turns, hanging on for dear life in the booming straights. Grinned Muncey, as he climbed out of the boat, "That's the fastest little grocery cart in town...