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...years later, a girl came running into Mr. Covino's fifth grade class, heralding through mask of shock and sweat that the Challenger had exploded just moments after liftoff. A mood of solemnity hung over Grafflin Elementary School that afternoon and it lingered for several days. Parents and teachers related how they had learned of the Kennedy assassination in a similar fashion. Sometime later that year, a current events-minded teacher took a poll, and my classmates voted the Challenger incident to be the most important news story...
Without blanching, last week Philadelphia's weekly meeting of Methodist clergymen heard Rev. Dr. Samuel Walter Grafflin, 66, a colleague from White Plains, N. Y., declare: ''The Church is spending too much effort reaching the nice little boys instead of the hell-raisers. And while I'm at it, let me say something in favor of that grand old word, hell. I'd like to know the bo who first called that word profane. The ministry could do nothing better than legitimatize it. Hell is the only word...
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