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...career devoted to self-effacement, and conducted in Cincinnati, naturally leads to the question, Who is Ken Anderson? All football fans remember that he comes from an unlikely Lutheran institution in Rock Island, Ill., "little-known Augustana College" (in footballese, adjective and noun are welded together, as in "wartorn Middle East"). Also little known is the general opinion that if N.F.L. computers were programmed to construct the ideal quarterback, they would spit out Kenny Anderson. He is strong, quick (4.8 sec. over 40 yds.), with outstanding peripheral vision and, at 6 ft. 3 in., tall enough to throw over...
...Pope is far from alone among church leaders. Lutheran, Calvinist and Roman Catholic clergy were among the early organizers of Europe's widespread antinuclear movement. In the U.S. a growing number of pastors and prelates are taking up the chant. The movement is not limited to predictable leftist or pacifist church circles; it has entered the religious mainstream. This month the 37 regional executives of the American Baptist Churches called the very existence of nuclear weapons, much less willingness to use them, "a direct affront to our Christian beliefs." The bishops of the United Methodist Church proclaimed in November...
Literally. The Lutheran Church has thrown its considerable weight behind the antimissile protest and so, in a more muted fashion, has the Roman Catholic Church. Protests sponsored by churches have played a major role in arousing public opinion. Earlier this month, the Evangelical Synod, which is the governing body of the Lutheran Church, approved a "peace memorandum" that was tougher on the U.S. than on the Soviet Union...
Protestants. The Roman Catholic Church is not a member. Nor is the moderate American Lutheran Church, which has invited heads of 89 denominations to consider forming a broader church council...
...Harvard was stopped when the squop came into vogue. In the 1966 Continentals, the hard-squopping Canadian Champion--Waterloo Lutheran University--decimated the Crimson. The team fell into depression and disrepair over the loss--its first ever--and soon disappeared...