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Sailplane pilots are part bird, too, who flock to competitions not so much for the trophies as for the chance to drift on the wind with others who share the love of the experience. Many of the entrants at Wichita also fly powered planes, e.g., 46-year-old Leonard Pratt, a Central Airlines captain, who took up sailing as an exhilarating change from the security-and the thunder-of piston flight. Another contestant, Gleb Derujinsky, 36, makes his living as a freelance fashion photographer...
Died. Joseph Ernest Cardinal Van Roey, 87, Primate of Belgium since 1926 and the third prince of the church (after Cardinals Tardini and Canali) to die within eight days; after a long circulatory illness; in Mechlin, Belgium. A lifelong political activist known to his flock as "the Iron Bishop," Cardinal Van Roey excommunicated World War II Belgian quislings, unsuccessfully opposed the abdication of ex-King Leopold, and denounced with equal fervor his nation's prewar fascists and postwar socialists...
Taylor then collected Brigadier General Tony McAuliffe, a flock of colonels and staff officers, a correspondent from Reuters and a few score soldiers and led the attack that opened up a causeway from Utah Beach for the 4th Division. Says Taylor: "Never were so few led by so many." To his stunned surprise, Taylor got the Distinguished Service Cross for his part in the action after a staff officer sneaked his name onto the citation list. The embarrassed Taylor gave the officer a memorable chewing...
...fashioned custom of sending flowers to funerals, increasingly supplanted by a terse "Please Omit Flowers" in a death notice, is something worth preserving, thinks the Rev. W. Carter Merbreier, 34, of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. In this month's pastoral letter to his flock, he pleaded eloquently for flowers-at his own funeral, in any case...
...Supreme Patriarch of Thailand, landed in Manhattan last week after junketing austerely across the U.S. Paying typical tourist obeisance to the Himalayan-high Empire State Building, he padded sandal-clad and saffron-robed around the 86th-floor observation platform, noted the artifacts of Western civilization-but few of his flock. "I have seen many people in this country who are interested in Buddhism," commented His Holiness, "but not too many...