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Covenant United Presbyterian Church Hammond...
EDWARDS E. ELLIOTT The Garden Grove Orthodox Presbyterian Church Garden Grove, Calif...
...assorted dropsy remedies at their command, doctors are delighted that they soon may have still another. Ethacrynic acid, a synthetic compound discovered in 1960, has a dramatic diuretic effect even in patients who do not respond to other drugs, says a research team at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center. It can be taken by mouth or, if necessary, injected. Its effects complement or enhance those of other diuretics, so that in critical cases doctors can give two medicines together for double the effect or more. Ethacrynic acid also seems to work in patients suffering from some degree of kidney...
...most U.S. churchmen, Fundamentalist Carl Mclntire, 58, is an irritating preacher. In radio broadcasts over 617 stations, he accuses the major U.S. churches of being "infiltrated by Communists," assails Episcopal Bishop James Pike and top Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake for distorting the Bible, opposes the civil rights movement and ecumenism. Writes Pennsylvania's Episcopal Bishop Robert DeWitt: Mclntire's "attacks upon the Protestant community, the Roman Catholic Church, the United Nations, and American foreign policy have established him as a negative and divisive force...
...popular, though Christian. The real-life problem has apparently confronted Frederick Buechner, 38, a talented proseur (A Long Day's Dying, The Return of Ansel Gibbs) who was ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1958 and now serves as chaplain at Phillips Exeter Academy. In this precious pseudoreligious novel, the author sounds like an eager young padre at a prep-school bull session, the type who yanks off his collar, chug-a-lugs a yard of beer, belches a couple of four-letter words, and in general suggests that in the beginning was the dirty word...