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...split does occur, it is uncertain how many would leave the Missouri Synod. Tietjen predicts that more than 1,500 congregations will depart. Others put the figure much lower, at a maximum of 500 congregations encompassing some 250,000 members. Whatever happens, the moderates themselves reject the word schism...
...Portuguese depart, both manufacturing and agriculture have sagged. Crop levels this year for tea, tobacco, cotton and cashew nuts have dropped sharply. At the port cities of Nacala, Beira and Lourenço Marques, efficiency is down 80% and pilferage has doubled in the past year. "What worries me," said a black civil servant, "is that Machel doesn't, seem to care if the standard of living falls here. In fact I think it fits in with his Maoist ideas. Maybe the camaradas [comrades] will take it in the countryside, but sooner or later he will have an urban...
Unlike their counterparts in Britain, who often depart noisily for reasons of political principle, resigning American Cabinet members and high Washington bureaucrats tend to leave the Government like guests who have been to a bad party but are too polite to say so. They smile gamely; they send the President thank-you notes...
...which means that come the final week of June. When most will have been three weeks departed from Cambridge, the linksters will depart for Columbus, Ohio and a rendezvous with the same sand traps and water hazards that once caused Jack Nicklaus and Tom Weiskopf a whole lot of grief...and bogeys...
Being visible does not help the scientists' research careers. Other scientists see them, Goodell says, "as a pollution in the scientific community," as publicity grabbers who depart from normal scientific channels to communicate their views. These critics complain that their better publicized colleagues may mislead the public because they often speak outside their area of expertise. Biologist George Wald, a Nobel Laureate and vociferous antiwar spokesman, disagrees. "If the scientist is good," he says, "his field is reality, and that covers an awful lot of ground. I think that the scientist can be that rare, disinterested person who calls...