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...Witnesses is one of the three major worldwide sects (with the Mormons and the Christian Scientists) that can be properly labeled "Made in the U.S.A." Its founder was a thin, smallish Pittsburgh Congregationalist named Charles Taze Russell, who began preaching the second coming of Christ in the 18703, and organized his followers into the Zion's Watch Tower Society. When Russell died, a pontifical, organ-voiced lawyer, Joseph Franklin Rutherford, took over, built the organization into more or less its present form (estimated membership: 300,000), and called it Jehovah's Witnesses...
This lethal pipe organ shoots fifteen 4.5-inch rockets at once (some models shoot 24 or more), but is not very accurate; it is best used to lay pre-attack barrages on the enemy's rear areas, is sometimes mounted on tanks...
...Rome last week, Holy Year pilgrims visiting St. Peter's were startled to hear organ music grumbling up through gratings in the marble floor. One awed pilgrim exclaimed: "It comes right from the tomb of St. Peter...
...pilgrim's guess was close: the music came from the upper grottoes of the Vatican, just above the site where Roman Catholic historians believe St. Peter was buried. It issued from a brand new Wurlitzer electronic organ-the first to be installed in St. Peter...
...been the persuader. Two years ago he presented the Pope with a Wurlitzer for his Cappella Matilda, one of the small chapels in the pontifical apartments. When the Pope seemed pleased with it, the Congregation of Rites voted to "tolerate" one in St. Peter's. After the new organ's debut, most of the Congregation seemed tolerably pleased...