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...Mark's Lutheran Church in Chicago, Christmas was marked seven years ago by what the pastor, the Rev. J. Stephen Bremer, calls "two rather nondescript services," on Christmas Eve. Next week the Rev. Mr. Bremer and his congregation will celebrate the birth of Christ with four choral Eucharists, at which all the prayers and responses will be sung in plain chant. Instead of the austere black robe that his predecessor wore, the Rev. Mr. Bremer will dress in full Eucharistic vestments-alb, stole, maniple and chasuble, all in white. St. Mark's altar will bear six candles instead...
...years Lyndon and Lady Bird Johnson, though millionaire ranch owners back in Texas, put up, when in the capital, in a modest, nondescript house on the edge of Rock Creek Park. The house would do for a Texas Senator, but they could entertain only six or eight people at a time, and as their daughters, Lynda Bird (now 17) and Lucy Baines (14), grew up, the need for more room and closet space for all the L.B.J.s in the family became critical. And, as Vice President of the U.S., Lyndon felt the need of something a little more impressive...
...often, you depict every run-of-the-mill, nondescript, Caspar Milquetoast, blend-into-the-woodwork type gangster as looking like a bank clerk. And now Eichmann! Come, come, TIME. Where are you doing your banking? Surely not out here in the West, where I am married to a banker who looks like a gangster...
...Society is indestructible. After every major upheaval-war, depression or graduated income tax-the cry arises that Society is not what it used to be, and Amory divertingly traces this plaint all the way back to the landing of the Mayflower. That sacred vessel, reports Amory. carried a nondescript list of lower-middle-class passengers, plus a sprinkling of servants; and not a man in the lot could sign himself "Gent...
...apparent need for easing the economic and social aches and pains of Latin America took concrete form last week in a set of redecorated offices in a nondescript building in Washington. With a ceremonial round of martinis, pisco sours* and Brazilian coffee, the Inter-American Development Bank declared itself ready for business at 801 Nineteenth Street. No sooner were the doors open than the loan ideas started pouring in. What could the bank do for a dietetic laboratory in Mexico? How about a farm machinery credit house in Chile...