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...consternation of the Government, however, it was a gesture that is suddenly becoming familiar in churches throughout the nation. Virtually the same scene was played out two weeks ago in Manhattan's Washington Square United Methodist Church, which had offered sanctuary to Draft Resister Donald C. Baty. Two Rhode Island draft evaders holed up for four days in Providence's Unitarian Church of the Mediator this month, before police moved in and arrested them. Boston's venerable Arlington Street Unitarian Universalist Church has twice offered similar haven, and three San Francisco churches-one Presbyterian, one Methodist...
...announced that this is the last time such masterpieces will be sent out of the country. But when Spain's paintings return home next October after the closing of HemisFair, Texans will not be totally bereft. They can feast their eyes at the Virginia Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, where a group of Spanish paintings is being built up by Algur Hurtle Meadows, the Dallas oil millionaire. Badly burned when he bought a group of post-impressionists from two fly-by-night dealers only to find that they were largely fakes (TIME, May 19, 1967), Meadows...
Miniaturized Surgery. After a year in London working with Britain's noted heart surgeon Lord Brock, Cooley returned to his native Houston and was associated at Baylor University College of Medicine with Surgeon Michael E. DeBakey (TIME cover, May 28, 1965). The DeBakey-Cooley team at Methodist Hospital pioneered many innovations in heart surgery before Cooley moved next door to St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, which is also affiliated with Baylor. There he has established an independent reputation as one of the greatest of heart surgeons and almost certainly the world's greatest in the incredibly difficult...
...Woodland Hills Methodist Church near Los Angeles, the Rev. William E. Steel has held dialogue sermons once a month for two years. Most of his congregation likes the idea, although newcomers are shocked by the easy give-and-take of discussions. At his Episcopal church in Ignacio, Calif., Vicar Charles Gompertz occasionally stirs up dialogue by stationing a "plant" in the congregation. During a sermon, the plant may stand up and yell: "That's the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" Says Gompertz: "It really blows their minds...
Dropping the explicit ban on alcohol and tobacco represents a significant change for Methodism. Since the rule did not apply to laymen, many ministers have long complained that the church was in effect imposing a double standard of personal morality. Interpreting the rule change, Methodist officials insisted that it did not really relax discipline, instead placed the burden of responsibility for living a moral life on the self-discipline of the minister himself rather than on a code of laws. "It is time we took seriously what we mean by a 'moral witness,' " said the Rev. Harold Bosley...