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Concerted Attack. The cooperative-ministry approach is also suited to situations in which the church needs to build up facilities from scratch. At Columbia, Md., for example, where nine "planned villages" are under construction, a dozen Protestant denominations have pledged more than $2,000,000 to construct campuslike, multichapeled spiritual centers in each. While the churches will conduct separate services, they plan to share ownership of the centers, maintain common administrative and teaching staffs, libraries and other community facilities...
...committee inside the hospital. Ideally, the organizers will place a union sympathiser in each department who can talk to people and sign them up during work. At Jewish Memorial SDS had a ready-made fifth column in the two workers who approached them. But they are starting more from scratch at the GBHC hospitals...
...their common love of opera. They take advantage of the club's seats to hear a favorite opera several times a season, bone up on the club's collection of librettos, delight in the chance to march around the stage in costumes as extras. Says Snyder: "Scratch the surface of an opera-club member, and underneath you'll usually find a former choirboy like me who never got over the singing virus...
...Powell, 66, who now moves up to chairman, Dictaphone opened new overseas markets, branched into the temporary-office-help field (DOT Services) and, through acquisition of two smaller companies, grabbed 7% of the office-furniture market. The arrival of Finke, who started Honeywell's data-processing division from scratch in 1955 and built sales up to $300 million annually, may well signal Dictaphone's expansion into broader electronics fields...
...shooting incidents, according to a study made by British Columbia's fish and game department; the rest are accidental, and 80% of the accidents are "the result of sheer carelessness." A common case is the hunter who drops his loaded rifle to the ground, and bang! - scratch one hunter. Last fall a nervous Texan tried to club a wounded opossum to death with the butt of his rifle and shot himself in the stomach on the first swing. In October, a Colorado hunter tried to demonstrate a fast draw for the benefit of his buddies, only to discover that...