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...Hatfield & McCoy. Blake had chosen his nuclear churches cannily. The Methodists are an earthier offshoot of the Episcopalians, just as the United Church is a more freewheeling version of Calvinism than the Presbyterian. He purposely omitted the Lutherans and the Baptists, though he hopes they will eventually come in. The Baptists are too jealous of their congregational autonomy and are intransigent against infant baptism. The Lutherans in the U.S. are in the throes of pulling themselves together with mergers of their own (there have been 16 major Lutheran unions since...
...united to form the Church of South India in 1947. Under way in North India and Ceylon are similar unions on which Blake modeled his own proposal. But among the vested interests and sentimental en trenchments of U.S. Protestantism, such a suggestion seems almost like proposing a marriage of Hatfield to McCoy. That it could be seriously put forward by so hardheaded and experienced a pro of churchmanship as Eugene Carson Blake has surprised many an old ecumenical hand and given new hope to many more. A Bill of Principles. Dr. Blake is an enthusiast: he acts...
...chance that Dick Nixon will not choose to run in 1964, and that Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller will stalemate the G.O.P. nomination, some Western Republican bigwigs have been sizing up Oregon's young, handsome Governor Mark Hatfield as a possible regional favorite son. Two of California's just-retired party leaders-former Chairman George Milias and ex-Finance Chairman Bob Power-led off the parade to Salem, followed shortly by the director of the G.O.P. Senate Campaign Committee, Vic Johnston, and, most recently, by several leading Los Angeles County politicians. The Californians were impressed, and Hatfield...
...MARK O. HATFIELD Governor Salem...
Although not so sharp is the Hatfield-Ziffren exchange, the debate made clear to those who were looking closely that there is some difference in basic attitudes between the candidates and between the parties...