Word: reunioner
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...better than hold its own, with an exclusive of Ike at the Morrison Hotel breakfast and a fascinating scene in which Nixon and Rockefeller met for the first time in Chicago, Rocky wearing a Nixon button as big as his smile, patting "Dick" on the back with college-reunion gusto and proclaiming that "it will be a pleasure" to campaign for him. "If this isn't love, it'll have to do until the real thing comes along," observed Brinkley to Huntley. Once again NBC clearly outperformed CBS, and the ratings proved it; of the 14 million viewers...
...spelled out the word "water" upon the palm of blind, deaf Helen Keller. Last week Miss Keller, almost 80, went to Radcliffe College for the in formal dedication of the Anne Sullivan Memorial Fountain, which flows in the Helen Keller Garden that was presented to her at the 50th reunion of her class ('04). Before feeling the water, Miss Kel ler smiled mistily, read a Braille inscrip tion at the back of the fountain: "In memory of Anne Sullivan, teacher extraordinary, who beginning with the word, water, opened to the girl Helen Keller the world of sight and sound...
...Embarrassing Central. The seeds of the problem were sown in 1939, when Methodists rejoiced in the completion of a long march to reunion after the split of the Civil War. Three separate churches -the Methodist Episcopal Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church South, and the Methodist Protestant Church-united in a single body made up of six "jurisdictions." Five of them are geographical; the sixth cuts across regional lines, is made up of 367,000 Negroes all over the U.S. At the time, this "Central Jurisdiction" seemed a happy solution, giving Southerners their segregation and Negroes a greater proportion of church...
Alighting on U.S. soil in Seattle after an extended spell of world traveling, CBS Commentator Edward R. Murrow seemed awed by his person-to-person reunion with the small world. Allowed he: "I think as a result of my eight months of wandering about, I will talk with less assurance about world conditions - or perhaps I should say 'less arrogance...
...conditions considerably improved since Cardinal Isidore's hasty departure. Turkey, since Ataturk, is a secular state. And Gennadius' successor, the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I, who once made his headquarters in Manhattan as Greek Orthodox primate for North and South America, is a lot more approachable on church reunion than was Gennadius. Both Athenagoras and Lardone became American citizens during their U.S. stay; though the Treaty of Lausanne required Athenagoras to become a Turk again on his election as Patriarch...