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Five agile, mobile, and hostile Radcliffe girls flipped their way to medals Sunday in the Armed Forces Judo Tournament--Women's Division--at Newport Naval Base...
...takes an hour and a half to write every three minutes of a good sermon," says the Rev. Bertram Apman, pastor of the small Holy Cross Lutheran Church in the Seattle suburb of Newport. Overworked at his job of counseling, fundraising, youth work and admin stration, he has little time left to pr pare his preaching, which is why "some of my sermons have been so crummy." Apman feels that most small-town ministers share his problem, and that the solution is to merge weak little churches into a few big ones, regardless of the cost in denominationalism...
...indifferent to the old theological quarrels of their churches. In many communities, Lutherans have no qualms about attending Methodist, Presbyterian or Episcopal services when a church of their own is not available. Moreover, Apman is already thinking ahead to a possible union of the eleven other churches in the Newport area into three larger, united congregations, each with a team of four ministers who could specialize in youth work, counseling, administration. He has already talked with several other Newport ministers, who shy away from formal merger but are willing to discuss some kind of share-the-work program. Apman concedes...
...double life lies in a scrambled lineage that is the epito me of today's mobile society. Father Eddy Duchin was only the son of a pharmacist, and a paid performer at deb parties, until he caught the eye of Marjorie Oelrichs, descendant of a leading Newport family and heiress to the last scraps of a once immense mining fortune. When she married him, the Social Register struck her name from its rolls...
...also a sign that the political situation in Virginia is finally changing. Voter turnout is increasing, and not only because of recent increases in the number of Negro voters. Virginia's population is growing rapidly in suburban areas around. Washington and the Norfolk-Newport News areas; new voters in these areas do not care for the Machine's country courthouse politicians...