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Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr., 32, Air Force captain, 150 lbs., 5 ft. 9½ in., blue eyes, brown hair. Methodist. Born: Shawnee, Okla. After a hitch in the Marines he attended the University of Hawaii, got an Army commission, transferred to the Air Force. Rolled up 2,300 flying hours (1,400 in jets), graduated Air Force Institute of Technology, '56 (aeronautical engineering), was test pilot for experimental fighters at Edwards Air Force Base...
From his farm, Ike made trips to town for Good Friday services at the First Methodist Church and Easter Sunday services at Gettysburg Presbyterian Church, inspected his Aberdeen Angus, worked over speeches scheduled this week before the NATO ministers in Washington and a Gettysburg College convocation. This week, the holiday over, he planned to return to the White House after the annual Easter-egg roll. There, he would dig in to face a returning Congress and the crises which have become almost part of an average day's work...
...Rock. Near Tallahassee, Fla., members of the Pisgah Methodist Church listened to a sermon titled "Build Your Church on a Firm Foundation," then crawled under the building to get folding tables for a church dinner, found a 250-gallon cache of moonshine whisky...
...thought he had been eaten by a lion, learned only months later that he had walked barefoot 1,000 miles to the gold mines of South Africa. There, working by day and studying by night, he accumulated a little learning and a little money, with the help of a Methodist bishop made his way to the U.S. Comparing himself to the wandering scholars of the Middle Ages, he went from the Wilberforce University high school in Ohio to the University of Chicago, to Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn., and then on to complete his studies for a British medical...
...Broadway Methodist Church...