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...turnabout, indeed, for a team that sold only 1,914 season tickets in 1961, and never has enjoyed a winning season in its six-year history. The turnabout is especially sweet for Don Meredith, 28, who has been a Cowboys' quarterback ever since he graduated from Southern Methodist in 1960-and has taken the brunt of the fans' abuse...
Sectarian Ambiance. By contrast, Maryland permits state-taxpayer suits -and starting in 1962, the Maryland general assembly created a state college-aid program that parallels the federal setup. Four bills provided $2,500,000 for new facilities at four church-related colleges-Hood (United Church of Christ), Western Maryland (Methodist), Notre Dame and St. Joseph's (Roman Catholic). All of the bills were challenged by 13 Maryland taxpayers and the Horace Mann League, an association of 500 public-school educators. The state court's decision, they hoped, would, by inference, hold the federal programs unconstitutional...
...major denominational merger is about to create the nation's largest Protestant church. Meeting separately in Chicago last week, the general conferences of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren approved a formal constitution for their long-discussed union. If, as expected, the constitution is ratified by the annual regional conferences of both churches, the United Methodist Church-amalgamating 10.3 million Methodists and 750,000 members of the E.U.B.-will come into being in the spring of 1968. (The Southern Baptist Convention, currently the nation's largest Protestant faith, has 10.8 million members...
...that the spirit has been that of a corporation merger rather than one of genuine Christian renewal. To these critics, the architects of the merger have muffed the chance to work out a new creed expressing the Wesleyan faith for modern times, failed to provide for an interlocking of Methodist and E.U.B. structures at the local level, and ignored the fundamental insights about the real nature of ecumenism that have been achieved by other church groups...
Instead, the talks have been devoted to the painstaking resolution of the minor ecclesiastical differences between the churches. The Methodists elect bishops for life, the E.U.B. for renewable four-year terms. Methodist district superintendents are appointed by bishops; E.U.B. superintendents are elected by the annual conferences. In the end, the E.U.B. voted to accept the Methodist practices in these areas...