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...simplest, most straightforward level, the Agassiz Cup story is characteristic because it's about crew--the sport that in 1929 helped bring Smithies, a 22-year-old Australian law student, the great-grandson of the first Methodist minister in western Tasmania, a Rhodes Scholarship. Finding England "too structured for my taste," Smithies went on to discover "the fleshpots of the United States" with a Commonwealth Fellowship and a Model A Ford, earn a quick Harvard doctorate in economics, return to Australia briefly to work in its treasury department, then settle in the United States for good...
...restrict federal funding for it. The commission, acting under its mandate to monitor federal policies on sex discrimination, said that anti-abortion amendments would hinder the rights of women as well as the religious rights of persons who hold different views. The commission is headed by Arthur Flemming, a Methodist layman who was formerly president of the National Council of Churches. Terence Cardinal Cooke of New York, chairman of the Catholic bishops' pro-life committee, protested that the commission had apparently joined "those who would violate the rights of the most powerless among us -the unborn child...
...daytime soap opera As the World Turns. In 15 years of televised traumas, Fulton has neatly tucked away three marriages, two divorces, 18 or 19 lovers, two children (one in wedlock, one out), a phantom fetus and a miscarriage. In real life, she is the daughter of a Methodist minister and is married to Record Producer Dan Fortunato. She commutes into Manhattan from staid suburban Westchester County. "I'd love to play a real evangelist like Aimee Semple McPherson," says Fulton of her Hollywood aspirations. In case that script doesn't work out, however, Fulton has continued fulfilling...
Oscar Roan, Southern Methodist, 6 ft. 6 in., 215 lbs. With pro tight ends getting bigger and bigger, Roan has the size to carry out blocking assignments. As a receiver, he catches anything close to him and can run long patterns with surprising speed...
...Naperville, 111., a dozen Methodist teen-agers observe a 36-hour hunger vigil, taking only a single glass of juice to ease their fast. At the University of Notre Dame, 1,100 people sit down to a dinner of rice and tea-and donate more than $1,500 to the hungry. In Needham, Mass., an ecumenical group of 50 families commit themselves to eating three meatless meals together each week for six months...