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...quiet, tree-lined town of Gilmanton, N.H. enjoyed a fleeting notoriety when Townswoman Grace Metalious renamed it Peyton Place. Behind Gilmanton's doors, Novelist Metalious found fictional murderers, abortionists and deviates. But somehow she overlooked Richard Pavlick, 73, a slight, white-haired postal clerk and onetime mental patient, whose only aberration seemed to be writing angry letters to newspapers and to public figures. One day last month Richard Pavlick decided to do something worthy of inclusion in Peyton Place: he made up his mind to kill a President-elect...
Pulling & Hauling. As Stated Clerk (executive head) of the United Presbyterian Church of the U.S.A. and onetime president (1954-57) of the National Council of Churches, Dr. Blake was in San Francisco for the National Council's fifth triennial general assembly. He had been invited by California's Episcopal Bishop James A. Pike to be guest preacher at the pulpit of Grace Cathedral. When he sat down to think out his sermon about six weeks ago, it turned into a preachment that may well be a landmark in Protestant history...
Presbyterians number 3.2 million, governed by elected representatives organized in sessions, presbyteries, synods and an annual General Assembly, headed by a Moderator and Stated Clerk (chief executive officer). The Presbyterian Church was built upon Calvinism, founded by John Calvin in the 16th century soon after Luther's break with Rome. Presbyterians rely for faith and conduct on the Bible, believe in the Trinity, stressing the supreme sovereignty of God. Some doctrines such as predestination, once identified with Presbyterians, have largely fallen into discard. They practice the sacraments of baptism and communion, in which Christ is held to be present...
...Dade County already counts 22,000 unemployed Americans, and probably no more than 1,000 refugees have regular jobs. Former Under Secretary of Commerce Carlos Smith, 52, wears a white coat as a Fontainebleau Hotel room wait er; former Supreme Court Justice Jose Cabezas is a fruit-plant shipping clerk; Prensa Libre's onetime personnel director. Diego Gonzalez, 42. sorts soda bottles in a supermarket for 70? an hour and is glad to have the work. "We get $6 to $8 a day," said a former customs officer who finds casual work on the docks. "We split with...
ARTHUR RACKHAM, His LIFE AND WORK by Derek Hudson (181 pp.; Scribner; $20), tells the story of the British insurance clerk who became one of the two or three finest illustrators of children's books. The biography is a loving quiet account of a quiet life, but the book's main distinction lies in the Rackham illustrations. Those for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and The Wind in the Willows alone are enough to touch off shivers of nostalgia in all who knew them in childhood...