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...Church of Scotland might contemplate its pressure against dissenting minorities, and the churches of South Africa their sins of the past towards others. New England Congregationalists might pray pardon for their treatment of Quakers, and Friends for their refusal to protect the Scots on the frontier. Virginia Anglicans might ponder whether their failure 350 years after Jamestown to number more than a fraction of the Baptists and Methodists in that state is not due to their reluctance to admit tyranny before 1776 and superciliousness since. The Methodists and Baptists who set community patterns which discriminated against others might repent...
Those heaping abuse on him could well ponder the words of a politician of some renown: "A great Dane always has little poodles yapping at his heels...
...teams should give the leaders a good deal of trouble, but won't be too much in the running. Philadelphia will take fifth, New York sixth, Pittsburgh, seventh, and Chicago will wind up in the cellar again." With that, he yawned and went back to sleep, leaving us to ponder his reasoning...
Since a web-footed crew of Australians collected 14 of 23 gold medals at the Melbourne Olympics, the rest of the swimming world has faced up to an unhappy question: How and when can they ever catch up with the Aussies? While they ponder, the Australian Swimming Union is doing its best to aggravate the problem. The British Empire Games are a year away and the Rome Olympics are four years in the future, but this week the A.S.U. is already passing the hat among Aussie fans for $112,000 with which to recruit and train faster and flashier teams...
...world has wondered just how big the tiny republic thinks it is. For one peaceful spell, Israel's unsleeping sentinel retired, full of years and honors, to Sde Boker, a pioneer desert settlement, to plough fields, search the writings of the philosophers for "universal truth" and ponder the mission of man-and of Israel. Then, white of mane but wearing the familiar khaki battle dress of his wartime leadership, the hard, headlong man of decision came back to power...