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Great Things for Sod? As a rule, says Lyle Schaller of the Cleveland-Akron Regional Church Planning Office, ardor begins to cool when a church becomes selfsupporting. By the time it grows to cathedral size, organization may stifle altogether the spiritual ambitions of a genuine convert. "A convert enters a church ready to do great things for God, and the first thing he is asked to do is serve on the altar flower committee," notes Chicago Lutheran Theologian Martin Marty...
With fireworks exploding the morning sunlight, a 16-float parade snaking past new-laid sod and sudden flowers, and the beaming presence of the Vice President of the United States, the New York World's Fair came out for the second round last week. Everybody in volved - from terrible-tempered Robert Moses down - was determined to profit by experience. And profit was of the essence: the fair's first season ran up a rocking $17.5 million deficit and sent four pavilions into bankruptcy...
Unto Caesar, unto Sod. As the most sophisticated and powerful of the tools devised by man, the computer has already affected whole areas of society, opening up vast new possibilities by its extraordinary feats of memory and calculation. It is changing the world of business so profoundly that it is producing a new era in Arnold Toynbee's "permanent industrial revolution." It has given new horizons to the fields of science and medicine, changed the techniques of education and improved the efficiency of government. It has affected military strategy, increased human productivity, made many products less expensive and greatly...
...should it be that Charles de Gaulle, 74, hails back to but Rudricus the Great, who ruled Ireland with might and main for 70 years before he died in 219 B.C. His descendants took the name MacCartan, and in 1711, a MacCartan emigrated from the Auld Sod to France where he married convent-educated Susanne Decoetlogon, who bore him five children, one of whom turned out to be De Gaulle's great-great-greatgrandfather on his mother's side...
...Kenya's Royal Aberdare Game Preserve. As if to ease the memory of that painful experience, the Emperor had paved the pot-holed road from the capital to the British embassy compound on the outskirts of Addis, set 600 laborers to work planting trees and laying acres of sod to tidy up the city's new, U.S.-financed, $2,500,000 Municipal Center...