Word: cincinnati
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There are 3,600,000 Presbyterians in the U.S., and they are divided into eleven denominations. Last week members of the three largest took an important step toward eventual merger. At a conference in Cincinnati, delegates from the Northern Presbyterians (Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.), the Southern Presbyterians (Presbyterian Church, U.S.) and the United Presbyterians† put their signatures on a detailed Plan of Union, to be submitted to their respective General Assemblies...
Theologically speaking, the delegates to the Cincinnati meeting had very little to argue about. All three churches subscribe to the Westminster Confession of 1646 and to the catechisms adopted by U.S. Presbyterians in 1729. Statements of faith of all three churches would be kept as permissible congregational interpretations...
...Cincinnati, after Washington's American League opening game was rained out, the newly named "Redlegs" lost to the newly resettled (from Boston to Milwaukee) Braves, 2-0, as the 1953 baseball season officially got under way. ¶ln Manhattan, after losing the first game of the playoff, the Minneapolis Lakers whipped the New York Knickerbockers four straight for the National Basketball Association championship the fourth Laker title in five years iln Pocatello, the Idaho State boxing team, with the aid of its Olympic boxer, Ellsworth ("Spider") Webb, won the N.C.A.A. title from Wisconsin, 25-19 ¶ At Bowie...
...Cincinnati (Smith) 10, Milwaukee...
...National League: Brooklyn 4, Pittsburgh 2, with a homer by Pittsburgh pitcher Lindell; Philadelphia 8, New York 1, with a homer for the Phils by Dol Ennis in the first inning; St. Louis at Milwaukee and Cincinnati at Chicago were rained...