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...Frederick W. Densham was a vigorous six-footer of 61 when he first arrived in.the Cornish village of Wairleggon in 1931 as the new Church of England rector. A graduate of London University and the Divinity School at Oxford, Rector Densham also proved vigorous, even radical, in his views on God, people and parishes. His 168 parishioners were Cornishmen, clannish and conservative, whose ideas on religion were as fixed and unchanging as the grey rocks that anchored the surface of the moor around them. So, in a way, it might have been predicted from the start that pastor and flock...
Last summer the Museum of Modern Art plugged a model of a Geodesic Dome into its landscape of Manhattan's West 53rd Street and drew as many as 2,000 spectators on a Sunday. This spring, the Ford Motor Co. will unveil a go-footer, made of such gossamer materials as aluminum spars, Orion fabric and Fiberglas, to enclose a large court in its Rotunda in Dearborn, Mich., as part of its soth anniversary celebration. This will bring this Fuller idea closer to practical use and success than most; it has hitherto been the fate of most of Bucky...
...FEADSHIP has constructed for U.S. buyers, the Capri will sell for $72,700, a saving of upwards of $20,000 over a U.S.-built boat of the same size. Already on FEADSHIP's books are orders for 30 more boats for U.S. buyers, from a $9,500 30-footer to a 122-ft. luxury cruiser...
Archbishop Gracias, an energetic six-footer whose ancestors were converted to Christianity by the Portuguese, is the first Indian ever so honored. The only other Asian now a member of the Sacred College is China's Cardinal Thomas Tien, refugee Archbishop of Peking...
Personality: A hefty six-footer with a rather severe mien-a compound of close-cropped grey hair, an affinity for black suits and ties, and a habit of looking people straight in the eye-he is, however, a friendly man with a well-used sense of humor. (His disclaimer, when asked whether he avoids smokers and drinkers: "You'd sure have to do a lot of detouring in America today.") He is an able and unruffled administrator who sets a fast pace. On a recent Sunday, he preached twice in the morning at a church in Fort Worth...