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...time to give the Southern Baptists a new name, urged the Rev. Dr. Forrest C. Feezor, executive secretary of the Texas State Baptist Convention. " 'Southern' is a sectional term that no longer describes our location. We are now in nearly every state in the Union and in Canada." The name is a handicap "to our ministry in areas beyond the South." Dr. Feezors suggestion: the Continental Baptist Convention...
...wholesale" campaign. Democratic primary votes for Chavez: 65,000; for Elzer S. ("Johnny") Walker, his Democratic opponent: 35,000. Along the way, Chavez' 1952 foe, Pat Hurley, decided not to run, leaving it virtually a certainty that the Republican nominee, Rancher Forrest Atchley of Clayton, will lose to Dennis Chavez in November...
...WITH YELLOW SHOES, by Anthony Heckstall-Smith (238 pp.; Roy; $2.75), is a modest memorial to a lonely soul: a middle-aged English bachelor with a little money, a lot of time and a proper sense of duty. Richard Forrest had no good reason for visiting Cairo just before Nasser grabbed the canal, and no sensible explanation for staying on. But after a casual acquaintance was murdered there, what else could a chap do? Not hard-case Communists, unregenerate Nazis or fanatical Arabs of the Brotherhood of Mohammed can stay this fast-moving story. Nor can they keep a muddling...
...Soon. By then, Larry Norstad was a marked man. In 1946 General Dwight Eisenhower insisted on Norstad as War Department director of plans and operations. As such, he was the Army's representative in the dickering that preceded unification of the armed services, and with the late Admiral Forrest Sherman is credited with largely writing the unification act. But the newly independent Air Force, says one of his colleagues, "didn't know what the hell to do with him. He was too young to be Chief of Staff." The solution, finally arrived at in 1950, was to name...
...Knight's Detroit Free Press, have set out to add greater depth and range to their business sections. The New York Times, which has the biggest (21 reporters) and most expert business staff of any general-circulation U.S. daily, drills business-side recruits by Financial Editor Jack Forrest's four-word manual: "Get behind the handout." The result is a flow of economic reporting that widens out from the Times's fat business section and nourishes the whole paper. For, as Washington Post and Times Herald readers found during the New York Central proxy fight, when Newshen...