Word: membered
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...Board also published a study of "racial inclusiveness," a term defined as the presence of at least one member in a congregation "other than the dominant racial group." Of 1,054 Congregational Christian churches (some 70% of the denomination's churches in U.S. metropolitan areas), nearly 27% turned out to be racially inclusive, compared to 17% in 1944. Said a board statement: "Scant basis for complacency . . . We have much yet to undertake in order to live up to our commitment as Christians and our reiterated statements that racial segregation...
Died. The Rev. Laurence J. Kenny, 94, professor emeritus of history at St. Louis University, veteran of 57 years of teaching, and the oldest member of the Jesuit order in the U.S.; in St. Louis...
...this system, division heads and Cordiner himself are "freed up"-Cordiner's favorite expression-to concentrate on long-range planning. Gone are assistants, coordinators and committees. Says Cordiner: "G.E. has no place for committees as decision-making bodies. A committee moves at the speed of its least informed member and too often is used as a way of sharing irresponsibility...
...missionaries' case is short and plain: they have every moral right, as well as a good legal one, to keep the child. But Author White sympathetically presents the Indian father's case. Alagarsami, the merchant, is not an independent man but an obligated member of a tradition-bound family. Eight years before, he was uninterested in the fruit of his night out with a servant girl; since then his wife has died childless, and Alagarsami must get himself an heir or see his birthright handed to a relative. In his own mind Alagarsami is battling for Mother India...
...Pleasure of His Company. Cyril Ritchard plays a hilariously prodigal father who insists on being an altogether too cozy member of his daughter's wedding...