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When Presbyterian Leader Eugene Carson Blake first proposed the idea from the pulpit of San Francisco's Episcopal Grace Cathedral in 1960, it electrified U.S. Christianity: as a step toward ultimate church reunion, he said, mainstream American Protestants must unite. At the time, Blake optimistically predicted that the project would need ten years to bear any fruit at all; pessimists seemed to think it was impossible. Last week, as the Consultation on Church Union met for the eighth time in Atlanta to carry forward Blake's pioneering proposal, it appeared that the participants were willing to accept...
...biennial meeting of the Commonwealth Prime Ministers is something like a school reunion: it's nice to see the old classmates again, but each time the participants find that they have less in common. Of the 28 Commonwealth members represented at the ten-day conference that ended in London last week, a majority no longer recognize Queen Elizabeth as their sovereign, several have left the sterling area, scarcely any regard their citizenships as interchangeable, and only two (Australia and New Zealand) still display the Union Jack on their flags. The only thing that seemed to unite them was that...
Debonair as ever, trading jokes with old acquaintances, the familiar figure hovered at the edge of the floor when the House convened last week. Despite his jaunty air, Adam Clayton Powell betrayed some of the nervousness of a dispossessed relative at a family reunion as his sometime colleagues took the oath of office from venerable House Speaker John McCormack...
...simpler kind of homecoming--welcoming "you valiant men"--and Sen. Smith drove it into the ground in her speech. After she was done, the proud little mayor of San Diego took ten minutes to tell the men how just really delighted his city was to host this happy reunion...
...Diego Chamber of Commerce. The men got some $200,000 in back pay and promptly unloaded some of it in the PX, opened for an hour despite the holiday. After a Christmas dinner, Bucher read a message from the families of Apollo 8's astronauts: "Your reunion has brought great joy into our hearts this Christmas Day." The Pueblo crew members reciprocated. After the space capsule's successful splashdown, they sent the three astronauts a telegram reading: "Although we 82 tried to monopolize the headlines, you three were just too much. We gladly relinquish the limelight...