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Instead of being smitten for heresy, the preacher-much to Bryan's chagrin -thrived and became famous. Harry Emerson Fosdick's 1922 sermon entitled "Shall the Fundamentalists Win?" flayed oldtime religionists for intolerance and became a rallying cry in U.S. Protestantism's biggest battle. By the time the conflict ended, Bryan and his beliefs had been repudiated by increasingly sophisticated Christians, while Fosdick had been elevated to the pulpit of New York's famed Riverside Church. There he remained, counseling and preaching, for 16 years until his retirement in 1946. And there he was eulogized last...
...firm, however, Washington immediately starts sounding the alarm. That was the cynical conclusion drawn by many Europeans last week from the U.S. Justice Department's announcement that it would sue to prevent British Petroleum from acquiring control of Standard Oil (Ohio). In fact, much to the chagrin of the State Department, Justice lawyers appeared to be mechanically applying their strict interpretation of antitrust law to what they saw as just another merger-without appreciating that this merger was special enough to call for more delicate handling...
...colony, and Zambia, an independent nation that harbors anti-Portuguese guerrillas, are virtually at war. The two soldiers were curious about the invitation from the other side. They handed their weapons to a comrade and strolled across the border to chat amicably with a Zambian immigration officer. To their chagrin, they found themselves arrested-and sentenced by an African magistrate in a lower court to a fine of $2,800 or two years in prison for entering Zambia illegally...
...unsuccessfully advised the Senate Banking Committee to soften the language of a bill that would limit the fees that mutual funds can charge investors. Senator Proxmire said that he was "shocked" that Budge would negotiate for a fund job while that legislation was still pending. Other Senators also expressed chagrin. The bill has been passed by the Senate, but the House has not yet taken...
Soviet leaders have never played up the race to the moon in their domestic propaganda, and there was no evidence that Russians felt the same chagrin that bothered the U.S. when Sputnik 1 led the way into space. Russian TV provided only limited and delayed coverage of Apollo's flight. But President Nikolai Podgorny wired President Nixon after the splashdown: "Please convey our congratulations and best wishes to the courageous space pilots." Peking, on the other hand, attempted to jam all five of the Voice of America broadcasts in Chinese...