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Although this attitude marked a sharp contrast with that of the American (Northern) Baptist Convention, which last fortnight edged a bit closer to union with the Disciples of Christ (TIME, June 25), the Southern brethren hastened to catch up with the Northerners in one department: "Whereas the Northern Baptist Convention has changed its name so that it is continental in scope [we recommend that] Southern Baptist boards and agencies be free to serve as a source of blessing-to any community or any people anywhere in the United States...
Even before St. Paul wrote these words in his letter to the Corinthians, Christians were debating whether or not the dedicated man of God should marry. Last fortnight in Wolverhampton, England, the Rev. Wilfrid Ellis, 60, Anglican bachelor vicar of St. George's Church, took a contemporary look at the matter in his parish magazine...
...already beginning to hear the call. Across the nation, in surprising numbers, Republicans were cheerfully spending $100 bills for a platter of chicken and a hard seat at a fund-raising dinner. The California party overflowed Los Angeles' Biltmore Bowl and took in $130,000. At Milwaukee a fortnight ago, the Wisconsin G.O.P. $100-a-plate affair, featuring Senator Robert A. Taft as speaker, drew 2,250 enthusiastic listeners. More dinners were...
...weeks ago. Since then, Harrison has shuttled between San Francisco, Cincinnati and Washington, attended union meetings, helped to redraft his union's bylaws, met with the Railway Labor Executives Association. Not once has he hung his hat in the office set aside for him by Mobilizer Charlie Wilson. Fortnight ago, Harrison got around at last to doing something about his new responsibility. He stopped by for a chat with Wilson, and asked to be formally sworn in. That didn't mean he was now ready to work. After the oath he said that he was about to take...
When 14 members of the House Public Works Committee took off in a U.S. Air Force C-54 last fortnight for a 3,000-mile tour of the proposed St. Lawrence seaway, seasoned Washington hands wrote it off as just another junket. It was well known that a committee majority opposed the $935 million project and probably would let it die. Last week when the committeemen got back to Washington, it looked as though the experts had forgotten the old saw that seeing is believing...