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...England's castle-flecked County Durham, U.S. Ambassador to Britain Winthrop W. Aldrich, cheered on by an elite audience of British and American brass, officially opened newly restored Washington Old Hall, 800-year-old home of the ancestors of George Washington. He was suddenly confronted by a prim, grey-haired gatecrasher. The uninvited guest: Gary Lady Schuster, 88, widow of a titled physics professor. Her ticket of admission: a lineage chart showing her direct descent from John Washington, the first President's great-grandfather, who sailed to America in 1657. Offering a glad hand, Ambassador Aldrich glowed...
...John Gerberding of Menomonee Falls, Wis. was acquitted by a trial committee of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church of heresy charges similar to those for which the Rev. George P. Crist Jr. of Durham was convicted (TIME, Aug. 8). The committee found "obvious confusion, immaturity and inconsistencies in Gerberding's position and recommended administrative action by the synod. Pastor Grist's comment: "The trial was considerably different from mine...
From his laboratories at Durham, N.C., where for more than 25 years he has been testing theories and assembling statistics about "ESP-prone" subjects, Dr. Rhine fired an angry volley at Price's article, asked "whether a hundred or more research scientists ... are so stupid as to indulge in a gigantic hoax involving the hiring of confederates and such...
...with the briefcase, the Rev. George Crist Jr., 31-year-old pastor of LUTHERAN HERESY TRIBUNAL & PASTOR CRIST Where is up? Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Durham, Wis., was on trial for heresy. The seven men at the table were Lutheran ministers chosen to carry out the first formal trial for heresy ever held in the 60-year history of the Northwest Synod of the United Lutheran Church in America, largest (membership: 2,061,004) group of Lutheran synods in the U.S. The charge: "Holding, teaching and preaching doctrines in convict with the Lutheran faith...
Captain Dexter Lewis may not play tomorrow, due to a pulled leg muscle. Tentatively, the starting attack will include Larry Coburn, Don Dawidoff, and Albie Wells. Leo Daley, Gibson Gerry, and Fred Sharf will start on defense, while Mike Durham, Jim Gale, and Mike Holmes are scheduled to open midfield play. John Ogden will tend the goal...