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Teams from Mosquito to Midget are sponsored by local concerns which desire to provide organized recreation and healthy competition for the youngsters of their area. The Juvenile and Junior teams are promoted and subsidized by various city athletic associations and rural civic organizations...
State of the Church. Ecumenical councils of the past were summoned when the church was faced with clear and present danger-heresy, schism, internal corruption, or the violent enmity of civic powers. Vatican II comes at a time when the Roman Catholic Church has never seemed so strong or so durable. Its membership-550 million-is at an alltime high; it has no fewer than 418,000 priests and 946,000 nuns...
During the third century A.D., Jewish communities of Asia Minor prospered under the Roman rule and their members played an important part in civic affairs. The synagogue of Sardis, of which only half has been excavated this summer, promises to become the best illustration for this phase of Jewish history...
...beseech thee to protect with thy sustaining presence those who venture to explore the heavens." At civic ceremonies, invocations are somewhat shorter and simpler than in the past-and may even on occasion live up to the standards of frankness set by the Right Rev. Anson Phelps Stokes Jr., Episcopal Bishop of Boston, who suggests that his priests say: "God forgive the graft that went into this building." Despite the Supreme Court decision, many schools opened this fall with some form of prayer. In San Francisco, the midmorning snack for kindergarten, first-and second-grade children is invariably preceded...
...left Salem at 6 a.m., drove to Portland for a quick speech to railway workers. Then he was off for a 351-mile drive to Baker (pop. 9,986), in sparsely settled, heavily Democratic eastern Oregon, for a typical round of small-town campaigning-an inspirational speech on civic virtue to the local high school assembly, a handshaking tour of an industrial plant (''Hatfield's the name, nice to see you again"), a visit with the editor of the local weekly, a talk to the Powder River Sportsmen's Club. It was all very...