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...industrial cities across the U.S., hundreds of churches much like St. John's have closed, merged, or moved lock, stock and chalice to the suburbs, after the middle-class territories they served degenerated into slums. This decline of Protestant strength in the "inner city" worries church leaders, and Castle, whose own community has lost at least two Episcopal and one Presbyterian church in the past 15 years, shares their concern. "We need to turn out from ourselves to see the people God has given us the privilege to minister and serve," he says...
...biggest fools in the circle of American League commentators this year are clearly the guy--namely myself--who picked Detroit for the pennant and Lock magazine's Tom Meany, who predicted that the Boston Red Sox would finish second...
Karandas, turning on Kirkland Street, managed to get his third lock at his pursuer. And as he swung into Divinity Avenue, he contemplated an attack. Words of wrath formed themselves in his disordered brain, as his body's pace began suddenly to slacken. His unusual exertions were catching up with him--and so was Biff Bundie. On the steps of the Biology Building, Karandas finally ground to a halt; and there, magnificently, he turned slowly to face and address his tormentor. "I do not know who you are, sir," he wheezed in a high-pitched whine quite foreign...
...wine and dance to Dixieland. The snag: Komsomol (Young Communist League) trusties at the door see that only the faithful get in. Young Russians yearn for spring, when they can flee jampacked apartments for the parks. Although Russia is generally a pristine society, on dance floors young couples often lock themselves in a pelvic polka that makes the twist look like a minuet...
...when the game was really rough-when thoroughbred horse racing was a contest between swift mounts and mean jocks, when it was standard practice to slash at another rider with a whip, to grab the bridle of an opposing horse, to lock legs with a boy who was bringing his mount past in close quarters...