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...wooden beams and joists, and now the building is tilting and the stairways are slanting. Eaten out of house and home, Democratic Governor Hulett C. Smith, 46, evacuated his wife and five children to his own place in Beckley, 52 miles away, there to await the restoration and to ponder the imbalance of nature that produced overfed termites and underfed coal miners in his domain...
Last week in Rio de Janeiro, at the general conference of the Methodist Church of Brazil, and in Lima, at the Fourth Latin American Lutheran Conference, two major Protestant groups met to ponder their rapid growth rate (nearly 10% a year) and its portents for the future. As even Roman Catholic churchmen admit, the potential of Protestant expansion is unlimited. There is a strong tendency among the masses of the poor, the educated middle class, and the young to look upon Roman Catholicism as an elderly and often irrelevant institution. Still spiritually hungry, however, many find satisfaction in a simple...
...airline industry figures that three of those eight cannot, for various reasons, be lured onto an airplane. That leaves half of the population for the airline industry to work on in its effort to win more customers. Last week in Washington the industry's marketing executives met to ponder why so many stay earthbound and to figure out new ways to tempt them into the air. The task is vital to the lines: for every additional 1% of the population that they succeed in attracting to flight, they gain $100 million in revenues. This year they are flying more...
...SCOPE (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.).* "The American Dream: Class of '65." As June graduates take their leave, colleges ponder larger classes to follow. Newscaster Peter Jennings explores the situation...
...gave Chou something to ponder before buzzing off to other African capitals...