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...Church of the Priory of St. Mary and St. Louis, was consecrated this month near St. Louis. Designed by Gyo Obata, with engineering consultation from Italy's Pier Luigi Nervi, the church is a confection of thin concrete shells resembling nuns' coifs. tiered like a giant pudding mold. On top of the graceful central lantern is the slenderest of crosses. Says Joseph Cardinal Ritter, Archbishop of St. Louis: "It is an outstanding demonstration of the ingenuity of man in honoring almighty...
Home Run Mistakes. Born 30 years sooner, Runnells might well have been a candidate for baseball's Hall of Fame. A scientific hitter in the mold of Honus Wagner and Ty Cobb, Runnells smacks clean line drives, rarely swings at a bad pitch. He steals an occasional base, is a superb buntsman and a meticulous fielder. One mistake he rarely makes: hitting home runs. "When I get one over the fence," he says, "I'm doing something wrong," and in twelve seasons Runnells has cleared the fence only 46 times. "I was born to hit to leftfield...
Only one person loves the war lover, an orphaned Korean boy named Charlie (Tommy Matsuda). A bruising struggle to mold Charlie's developing personality begins between Endore and another private, Loomis (Robert Redford). Loomis is a rookie in the platoon, a man for whom war is a strange, unreal interlude to be borne with fortitude, but no elation...
...actual details of the method took over two months to develop but the effect was generally as Saarinen had originally conceived it. Molds similar to that used for the construction of walls was erected and stone into it. Cement mortar was pumped into the mold, between pieces of stone, through attached After the cement had set, the were withdrawn and the walls were blasted to remove much of the mortar. The stone walls which were thus created by this process are significantly cheaper than masonry production but are quite handsome nonetheless...
...critical of the cultural disciplines, such as philosophy and anthropology, which attempt to give man an insight into life's meaning. Princeton's best-known systematic theologian, Presbyterian George Stuart Hendry, says Barth's Christocentric approach forces many church doctrines into an artificial mold. Wilhelm Pauck of Union Theological Seminary thinks Barth pays insufficient attention to the history of how Christian dogma developed...