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...spring tennis season gets under way with a Southern tour over Spring vacation, when two six-man Harvard teams play squads from Duke, Presbyterian, Clemson, and North Carolina...
...Lutheran Churches (20,000). At Missouri's insistence, the new agency will have a strong division for theological studies, which could help resolve some of the issues that now stand in the way of Lutheran intercommunion and pulpit fellowship. > Even closer to union are the 928,000-member Presbyterian Church in the U.S. (Southern) and the Reformed Church in America (232,000). A joint study committee has found no major obstacle to merger of these two Calvinist bodies, which already share a common church school curriculum and operate joint missions abroad. Observers believe that a formal announcement of merger...
...York's able School Superintendent Calvin Gross (TIME cover, Nov. 15) fervently wants to equalize Negro schools with a "saturation" dose of extra money and better teachers. "But you can't get enough money from the city or state," counters the Rev. Milton A. Galamison, a Brooklyn Presbyterian minister and graduate of Princeton Theological Seminary, who heads a committee that unifies Negro organizations...
...Christianity begins in the home," says the Rev. Donald V. Roberts, 36, and for him it is literally true. Last week Presbyterian Roberts conducted dedication services at the first American Protestant church ever organized in Moscow: one room of his new apartment, near Moscow University and the Red Chinese embassy. About 75 people crowded into "Christ Church" for the ceremony, and U.S. Ambassador Foy Kohler and Britain's Sir Humphrey Trevelyan read Scripture lessons...
Formerly pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Tonawanda, N.Y., Roberts in 1962 became the first Protestant chaplain ever assigned to Moscow's U.S. colony. With his wife and daughter, he spent a year in Room 306 of the Sovietskaya Hotel, holding services on alternate Sundays at the British and American embassies. Finally the Soviet agency responsible for helping foreigners found him two adjoining apartments in a new building. Roberts had the wall separating his two living rooms torn down to create an area large enough for his church...