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...opening of Cleveland's 23rd show, neither blizzards nor bone-chilling winds sweeping off of ice-covered Lake Erie could deter 18,000 hardy hobbyists. And in Detroit, while huge blocks of ice floated down the river near by, the crowds packed so tightly into cavernous Cobo Hall that the fire marshal finally had to bar the doors...
...Detroit's Cobo Arena, 12,000 wildly partisan fans whooped with delight. Led by All-America Cazzie Russell, the University of Michigan's No. 3-ranked Wolverines were running the lanky legs off Duke's Blue Devils, the nation's No. 1-ranked college basketball team. Russell was all over the court, snaring rebounds, intercepting passes, scoring points in bunches of six or eight at a time. With barely four minutes to go, Russell had accounted for 28 points, and Michigan was leading Duke 80-70. The game seemed out of reach. "They...
...little faith. To the surprise of just about everybody in Cobo Arena, the Blue Devils did it. Over those last four minutes, they outscored the Wolverines 15-5, and it took a last-second basket by Michigan's John Clawson to force the game into overtime, with the score tied 85-85. After that, it was strictly no contest. "Wave those arms! Keep Russell covered!" Duke Coach Vic Bubas bellowed from the bench; surrounded by two and sometimes three Duke defenders, Cazzie managed to get off six shots during the 5-min. overtime period-and missed all six. Duke...
...that there could be no fellowship without first reaching doctrinal agreement, the 2,744,574-member Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod has long stood aside from association with other U.S. Lutheran bodies and even more from the Christian ecumenical move ment. But at its triennial convention in Detroit's Cobo Hall last week, the Synod's 2,000 delegates voted to form a cooperative service agency with the American Lutheran Church, the Lutheran Church in America and the tiny (20,000 members) Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches...
...floor by John W. Behnken, respected former president of the Synod, who argued that "our forefathers were certainly interested in the unity of Lutheranism in America." Shortly after, current President Oliver Harms called for a vote. A chorus of scattered noes from diehard conservatives came from the back of Cobo Hall. "The resolution is not unanimous," said Harms, "but it is overwhelmingly adopted...