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...member United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.-a merger of the 2,800,000-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) with the 300,000-member United Presbyterian Church of North America. The new body, the fourth major merger of this ecumenical century,* is the fourth largest Protestant denomination in the U.S.-after the Methodists, Southern Baptists, and the Negro denomination titled National Baptists, U.S.A. The merger was originally intended to include the Southern Presbyterians, but they withdrew from negotiations three years ago under pressure from the ultraconservative churches of the Deep South...
...Cincinnati, was ordained a Roman Catholic priest at 22. When he was 34 he became Bishop of Toledo, the youngest bishop in the U.S., and nine years later he was Archbishop of Milwaukee. A decade after that, in 1940, the Most Rev. Samuel Alphonsus Stritch became Archbishop of the largest Roman Catholic archdiocese in the U.S.-Chicago-and six years later he was elevated to cardinal. His rare combination of shrewd business sense and warm-hearted concern for the poor had earned him the nickname "Bishop of Charity...
Massive Concentrations. Fortnight ago the U.S. announced that it had solved the re-entry problem for ballistic missiles, but Aleksandr Nesmeyanov claimed the same thing for his own country back in 1956. The Russians set off the first lithium isotope H-bomb, plan an atom-powered airplane, have the largest fleet of floating oceanography laboratories, now intend to build the world's biggest (220 in.) telescope. Beneath such tangible accomplishments-the hardware showpieces of science-lies a vast network of pure and applied research that is as energetic as any to be found...
...institutes probe into everything from weather control and ionospheric explorations above the Antarctic icecap to elaborate schemes for landing electronic-guided tanks on the moon. It sponsors as many as 100 field expeditions at a time, one of which last year discovered in Siberia what may be the largest diamond field in the world. It is the goad, guide and guardian of Russia's most impressive national effort...
ASTRONOMY. Behind, but determined to catch up. The new Biurakan Observatory in Armenia has one of the world's largest telescopes, and one of the world's finest libraries in the field. The observatory's head: Viktor Ambartsumian, the first Soviet scientist since World War II to become a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences...