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...Fortnight ago, Packer gave her a sterner test. When a raging nor'easter swept into Newport from the slate-grey North Atlantic, he ordered Gretel to sea for a race against Vim. As small-craft warnings fluttered along the Rhode Island coast, the two boats ran boldly before the 25-knot wind, working up speeds as high as 12 knots, lee rails awash and scant yards of churning ocean separating their glistening hulls. Aboard Vim, Helmsman Archie Robertson braced himself against the cockpit wall and strained to hold the wheel steady. Aboard Gretel, Skipper Jock Sturrock wiped salt spume...
...Fortnight ago, the Redeemer Church's vestrymen placed ads in four Bay Area newspapers charging that Pike's radical theological views "are unacceptable to us, and contrary to the credal beliefs as set forth in the Nicene and Apostles' Creeds -the fundamental beliefs of the Protestant Episcopal Church." Although they thus claimed to be authentically Episcopalian, the vestrymen admitted that in conscience they could not return to the jurisdiction of the church until Pike changed his views or the Episcopalian House of Bishops denounced his theology...
...Fortnight ago, at the Vatican, Augustin Cardinal Bea's Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity announced that a limited number of religion experts would attend the council as its special guests, distinct from the appointed observer-delegates. First three named: Prior Roger Schutz and Pastor Max Thurian, both Calvinists from France's famed Protestant "monastery" at Tarze, and Lutheran Biblical Scholar Oscar Cullmann...
...majority of Roman Catholic leaders deplored the court decision from the start and still do. Archbishop Lawrence J. Shehan of Baltimore said a fortnight ago that "secularization threatens to become a sort of state religion established by court decree...
...Washington press corps has long since learned that Defense Secretary Robert McNamara regards reporters somewhat as a general looks on junior officers: they have a job to do, and they must have access to the top brass-but only through channels. Last fortnight, when McNamara marched into a grandstand to watch some Army war games at Wedgefield, S.C., reporters were forbidden to follow-and like good soldiers they obeyed...