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...skeptics, the little company of faithful has spread across the world. Christians have given themselves strange names and have worshiped the Father, Son and Holy Ghost with commissions and omissions that would have shocked Rome's primitive Christians. The big brick church on Richmond's statue-stippled Monument Avenue, where Thomas Davis was baptized last week, would not look to Publius like a church at all. But the ceremony was the same, and the first-century Christian, generally unaware of baptism by sprinkling or pouring, would likely feel at home at the immersion ceremony of the Baptists...
Offer in Toledo. In booming 1928 First Baptist (founded in 1780) built itself a big $400,000 Georgian building, which covers most of a block on Monument Avenue. But in depressed 1935 the deacons were desperate. Interest payments on the building debt were barely being met, and the congregation had been without a regular pastor for 14 months...
...Universidad Pontifica. After Mass and breakfast, he climbed into a borrowed car and set out with his cousin and another priest for Cerro de Los Angeles, eight miles south of the city. This rugged hill is the exact geographical center of Spain. On its top once stood a huge monument, topped by a statue of Christ, which Communists dynamited during the civil war; since then, a smaller copy has been erected while a new statue is abuilding nearby...
...managed well. One monument to her imagination is the 2,257-ft.-long Bear Mountain Bridge, across the Hudson River 35 miles above Manhattan. She saw the need of a bridge there, and her younger son, E. Roland Harriman, now a Manhattan financier (and still a Republican), built the bridge (now state-owned) as a private venture. By the time mother Harriman died, in 1932, she was able to leave her two sons and three daughters a multimillion-dollar heritage...
...Governors. Senators and Representatives of four Western states voted to drop the controversial Echo Park Dam from their plan to develop power resources on the upper Colorado River. Conservationists had opposed the plan, angrily pointing out that the Echo Park Dam would flood the Dinosaur National Monument in Colorado's northwest corner. The four-state group now plans to push four other dams in a bill to be introduced in Congress next session...