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...list of 275 nominees, Christ-Janer represents something of a break with the school's presidential tradition. All five of his predecessors were both Methodist ministers and teetotalers; the son of a Nebraska Lutheran schoolteacher, Christ-Janer was a Presbyterian layman before becoming a Methodist-and he does take a social drink now and then. He majored in Greek at Minnesota's Carleton College, has a law degree from the University of Chicago as well as one in divinity from Yale...
Midnight Mass from the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, Washington (ABC); services from Washington Square Methodist Church, Manhattan (CBS); midnight Mass from St. Patrick's Cathedral, Manhattan...
Administrator-Leader. As its president for the next three years, the council elected a man who matches the new mood. Arthur Flemming, 61, was Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Eisenhower and has since 1961 been president of the University of Oregon. Methodist Flemming holds that "the worker-church and the evangelists can work hand-in-hand," but expects that his own chief value to the council will be as administrator. "I have had 30 years of experience in business and government, and the same basic principles of management apply to the council," he says...
Died. Dr, Harry Frederick Ward, 93, longtime chairman of the ultraliberal American Civil Liberties Union, an eloquent Methodist clergyman who taught Christian Ethics at New York's Union Theological Seminary, while lambasting "profit-seeking capitalism" and heading the A.C.L.U. from 1920 until 1940, when he was forced .out because of his praise of Communism; of heart disease; in Palisades...
Invitations have not gone out yet; the date has not even been set. But Lamar Hunt, 34, fully expects to be invited. It was seven years ago that Texan Hunt, a onetime third-string end at Southern Methodist, tried to buy a National Foot ball League franchise, got turned down-and decided to start a rival league. The American Football League is now a success, and Hunt needs just one thing to make his revenge complete: to sit with 100,000 other fans in Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum sometime next month and watch his Kansas City Chiefs beat...