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...inevitable, of course, that someone would invent a boomerang shaped like a space station, which can be flown by an eight-year-old. The someone is William C. Knox Jr., and all the indications are that he is about to become rich while the rest of the world ducks...
...Knox's brainchild, the Orbiteer, is to the Frisbie* what the Fairlane is to the model T. An 18-in. soft-plastic disk of six blades extending from the hub, with a handle shaped like the ionizer of a space station, it is thrown into the wind on an axis perpendicular to the ground. Depending on the throw, it scoots along for 50 ft. to 100 ft., then tips to a horizontal plane and zooms upward as high...
...Jubilee could still have emerged in the black if the Friday night Weavers concert had sold out, according to chairman James H. Knox. Competition from a Ray Charles concert and various Harvard dramatic groups, however, forced the usually popular folk singers to face a no more than three-quarters full Rindge Tech auditorium...
Auld Kirk. Since its beginnings with the Scottish Reformation in 1560, the Kirk has held fast to a Calvinism that in one sense is more rigid than John Calvin's. Calvin's influence on John Knox, the great Scottish reformer, made him an architect of the Kirk's bulwark against the papacy. In 1647, Scottish delegates to the Westminster Assembly wed their church to a Confession of Faith that described the Pope as "AntiChrist, man of sin, son of perdition." The Archbishop of Canterbury's 1960 visit to Pope John tested the ground for all Protestantism...
...Kirk, he said, "adheres to the 16th century Reformation and to the theological and ethical tradition deriving from Calvin and Knox." From the back of the church came the voice of Presbyterianism...