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...discussion centered on two papers. Dr. Conrad Bergendoff, president of Augustana College (Lutheran), warned that the unity represented by the World Council of Churches "is still marginal and peripheral," and will remain so until Christianity can be "expressed in common confessions of faith." Presbyterian John Leith, of Richmond's Union Theological Seminary, countered by suggesting that bold doctrinal talks might help church leaders toward unity by getting the focus off the superficial topic of organizational structure. "We are called upon to make serious decisions in the realm of theology and polity," he said...
West Highland white terrier imported from Britain about two years ago by the Wishing Well Kennels of Little Falls, N.J. "No dog came near to him," said Judge Heywood R. Hartley, a Richmond, Va., printing company executive...
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With two engines dead and a third one wheezing, an elderly Lockheed Constellation last month crashed near Richmond, Va., killing 74 Army recruits and three crew members. The plane was owned by Imperial Airlines, a nonsked company in Miami, operating under contract with the U.S. Army. Last week, after a four-week investigation by the Civil Aeronautics Board into the possible cause of the crash, it seemed a wonder that Imperial's Constellation had got off the ground in the first place. Items...
...There have been three U.S. Navy ships named Texas. The first was an ironclad ram captured from the Confederates in 1865 at the jail of Richmond. The second Texas took part in the Spanish-American War. In 1921 she was used as a target in Chesapeake Bay in Billy Mitchell's effort to show that a plane could sink a ship, and it is in Chesapeake Bay that she still lies. The third Texas, a veteran of World Wars I and II, was towed from Norfolk to Texas in 1948, where she has become a historical shrine near Houston...