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...still remains for the electorate to vote on the new constitution on June 6. Home again, the delegates have taken it upon themselves to convince their constituents of the virtues of the people's new compact with the state. Helena Delegate George Harper, a Methodist minister, is preaching "Praise the Lord and pass the Constitution." It may require a lot of convincing, because nobody can tell what those cussed individualists will do at the polls...
Died. Lord Rank, 83, Britain's foremost moviemaker; in Winchester, England. A devout Methodist with a family fortune derived from flour mills, J. (for Joseph) Arthur Rank entered the film business in the '30s to produce pictures that would compete with Hollywood and be morally uplifting. "I believe the best way we can spread the gospel of Christ," he said, "is through films." He made such classics as Great Expectations, Hamlet and In Which We Serve, and increased his fortune to an estimated $250 million...
...Exception and the Rule. By Bertolt Brecht. Caravan Theatre, Harvard-Epworth Methodist Church, 1555 Mass. Ave., Cambridge. Fri., Sat., 9 p.m. $3. Thru...
...followed suit in 1964. Both the Lutheran Church in America and the American Lutheran Church decided to accept women pastors in 1970, and the A.L.C. already has 116 candidates in its seminaries. Equality of opportunity does not necessarily produce a flood of candidates, however. The United Methodist Church gave women full rights to clerical appointment in 1956, but at the latest count in 1970, only 322 of the church's 34,722 clergy were women...
...genies back into the box, have no fear about that," boasts Rhodesian Information Minister P.K. Van Der Byl. The blacks, however, will not soon forget what they have learned in the past six weeks. "It may take six years, it may take ten," says Methodist Bishop Abel Muzorewa, the council's principal leader, "but we will not stop until we have reached our goal-freedom...