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...standard English hymnals. Two years ago, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church brought out a new hymnal that left out such traditional numbers as The Old Rugged Cross and Nearer, My God, to Thee. In 1966 the Methodist Church hopes to publish its first new hymnal in 31 years; more than one-fourth of the songs will be entirely new. The Lutherans revised their hymnal in 1958, and the Southern Baptists in 1956; the Baptists' publishing house, Broadman Press, plans to issue a new hymnal in 1964 for use by evangelical churches...
Americans take their viewing so seriously that more than one-fourth have their set repaired or replaced within four hours; about half get it going again within a day; and almost no one can bear to miss Mister Ed for more than a week...
...great deal more outside support available for graduate students in the sciences than in other disciplines, perhaps one can see in this circumstance at least part of the explanation of the concomitant happy development that 40 per cent of the funds spent in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences to help Teaching Fellows, and nearly a third of the Faculty's graduate scholarship funds, are available to graduate students in the humanities, who constitute less than one-fourth of the total graduate population...
...solid propellant also eliminates the complex plumbing and finicky maintenance problems of the earlier missiles. Minutemen can be turned out faster than their silos can be emplaced. Once deployed, they require no major maintenance for three years. At a systems cost of $3,400,000 per missile, Minuteman costs one-fourth as much as the Atlas...
Last week the Davis will was filed for probate. One-fourth of the estate, or about $100 million, goes to taxes and individual bequests, including $1,000,000 for Secretary Evelyn Mitchell, who served and nursed Widower Davis for 13 years...